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Children and the internet inquiry

Inquiry by the Communications and Digital Committee, 13 July 2016 to 13 July 2016. Its page on the Parliament website.

Reports and responses

Evidence sessions

  • 19 July 2016: Will Gardner, CEO, Childnet International, and John Carr OBE, Secretary, UK Children’s Charities’ Coalition on Internet Safety; Dr Dickon Bevington, Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Dr Henrietta Bowden-Jones, Consultant Psychiatrist in Addictions, and Dr Angharad Rudkin, Child Clinical Psychologist
  • 13 September 2016: Dr Julia Fossi, Senior Analyst, Child Online Safety Team, National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC), and Vicki Shotbolt, Founder and CEO, Parent Zone; Susie Hargreaves OBE, CEO, Internet Watch Foundation, and Dr Jamie Saunders, Director, National Cyber Crime Unit, National Crime Agency
  • 11 October 2016: Mark Donkersley, Managing Director, e-Safe Systems Limited, and Professor Derek McAuley, Professor of Digital Economy, University of Nottingham; Adam Glass, Partner, Lewis Silkin Solicitors, and Steve Wood, Interim Deputy Commissioner, Information Commissioner’s Office
  • 18 October 2016: Mary McHale, Teacher; and Karl Hopwood, e-safety consultant, esafety Ltd
  • 25 October 2016: Adam Kinsley, Director of Policy, Sky; and Paul Morris, Head of Government Affairs and Sustainability, Vodafone
  • 1 November 2016: Alice Webb, Director, BBC Children's, BBC; Tony Close, Director of Standards; and Lindsey Fussell, Consumer Group Director, Ofcom
  • 15 November 2016: 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
  • 22 November 2016: 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
  • 29 November 2016: 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