Government says it is looking at social media curfews for children ...Middle East

Social media curfews for children are among a range of plans being considered by the Government, the technology secretary has revealed.

Peter Kyle told the Daily Telegraph he was “watching very carefully” the introduction of TikTok’s 10pm curfew for users under 16 and examining tools for parents to switch off access at set times.

“These are things I am looking at,” he said.

“I’m not going to act on something that will have a profound impact on every single child in the country without making sure that the evidence supports it.”

The proposal came amid concerns about how the “addictive” nature of social media was interrupting sleep schedules and disrupting schooling and family life.

Mr Kyle said he was considering enforcement options under the Online Safety Act following regulator Ofcom’s publication of the Children’s Code.

He described the new rules as a “sea change” under which parents can expect their child’s social media experience to “look and feel different”.

It comes after the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), which finds and helps remove abuse imagery online, said 291,273 reports of child sexual abuse imagery were reported in 2024.

In response, the IWF announced it was making a new safety tool available to smaller websites for free, to help them spot and prevent the spread of abuse material on their platforms.

The tool, known as Image Intercept, can spot and block images in the IWF’s database of more than 2.8 million which have been digitally marked as criminal imagery.

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