UK Government's National Consultation on Social Media and Online Harms

The UK Government’s public consultation on social media and mobile phones wants to know your views on issues such as setting a minimum age for social media use, the digital age of consent, curfews, and addictive design features. The deadline for responses is 26th May.

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The UK Government’s public consultation on social media and mobile phones wants to know your views on issues such as setting a minimum age for social media use, the digital age of consent, curfews, and addictive design features. The deadline for responses is 26th May.

Anyone with a view is invited to take part, including young people, parents and carers, professionals working with children, civil society organisations, academics, and industry.

To support accessibility, the consultation is available in three different formats, including:

The consultation is open until 11.59 pm on 26th May, and the UK Government expects to publish its response in the summer of this year.

Check out this useful toolkit.

The toolkit outlines:

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