Hundreds of school children tell survey of upsetting experiences online - but only half let parents know
Internet safety is not being prioritised enough by parents who are granting unsupervised access to adult web content to kids as young as eight, it is warned.
It quizzed over 2,000 primary school children and almost one-third, around 666 children, revealed experiences with upsetting content online. But only half of them spoke to a parent or trusted adult about it, according to CyberSafeKids chief Alex Cooney. She warned there is a “disconnect between children and their parents about what children are doing online”.
The HSE’s Derek Chambers, who is policy implementation lead at the national mental health office, warned that “social media and online use is a “major public health issue across all generations”. He wants parents and children to close the “disconnect” that CyberSafeKids chief Cooney warned about. Chambers said: "That gap is something that we really need to bridge. It's not easy. It's a difficult thing to navigate.
Internet safety experts this week met at Microsoft Headquarters in Dublin for Safer Internet Day that was organised by the Irish Safer Internet Centre, which is coordinated by the Department of Justice and co-funded by the European Union. The Irish Safer Internet Centre is also a partnership between Hotline, ISPCC, the National Parents’ Council and Webwise.
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