Last updated by charlotte.lang@essex.gov.uk on Wednesday, March 13, 2024

The UK Safer Internet Centre has published new research on online safety examining the experiences and opinions of children and their parents/carers. Findings from a survey of 2,008 parents and their children aged 8-17 include:

• 74% of parents and carers are worried about the fast-changing online world as posing safety risks to their child
• 60% of 8-17-year-olds who say they have used generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) believe it has online safety risks
• 48% of 8-17s think changing technology is making it harder for them to control who can access information about them online.