Committees

Children and the internet inquiry

Inquiry

The Communications Committee launches its report, "Growing up with the internet". The Committee calls on the Government to establish a Children’s Digital Champion to ensure coordinated and sustained action from Ministers across all departments and to present robust advocacy on behalf of children to industry.

The report highlights that children are adopting recently innovated technology in their everyday lives before policy makers, schools or parents can consider the implications of such technology.

Reports, special reports and government responses

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2nd Report - Growing up with the internet
Inquiry Children and the internet inquiry
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HL Paper 130
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Response to this report
Growing up with the internet - Government response
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Oral evidence transcripts

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29 November 2016
Inquiry Children and the internet inquiry
Witnesses Nicola Blackwood MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Public Health and Innovation, Department of Health; Baroness Shields OBE, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Internet Safety and Security, Department for Culture, Media and Sport; and Edward Timpson MP, Minister of State for Vulnerable Children and Families, Department for Education
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Oral Evidence
22 November 2016
Inquiry Children and the internet inquiry
Witnesses Simon Milner, Policy Director, UK & Ireland, Middle East, Africa and Turkey, Facebook, and Katie O'Donovan, Public Policy and Government Relations Manager, Google; Dr Sarah Marsden, Lecturer in Radicalisation and Protest in a Digital Age, Lancaster University, and Dr Akil Awan, Associate Professor/Senior Lecturer in Modern History, Political Violence and Terrorism, Royal Holloway, University of London
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Oral Evidence
15 November 2016
Inquiry Children and the internet inquiry
Witnesses David Austin OBE, CEO, British Board of Film Classification; and Malcolm Phillips, Regulatory Policy Manager, Committee of Advertising Practice; Dr Nihara Krause, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Founder and CEO, stem4; and Dr Marc Bush, Chief Policy Adviser, Young Minds
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Written evidence

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Department for Culture, Media and Sport (CHI0067)
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Thewlis, David (CHI0066)
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Alex Burchill (CHI0065)
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Other publications

Government Responses
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Contact us

  • Email: holcommunications@parliament.uk
  • Phone: 020 7219 8662 (committee staff) | 020 7219 8535 (Press Officer)
  • Address: Communications and Digital Committee, House of Lords, London SW1A 0PW