Why has TV psychologist Dr. Byron advised the government on internet safety especially in child games?
Ministers need to act quickly on child internet safety, warns adviser Millions of children are still at risk online because moves to enhance internet safety have stalled, according to Gordon Brown’s adviser on the issue. Tanya Byron is so frustrated at the lack of effort to implement her action plan, which was published 18 months ago, that she is taking matters into her own hands and visiting schools to warn pupils and teachers of the dangers directly. Although the UK Council for Child Internet Safety has been set up, very little of substance has emerged. Dr Byron, a child psychologist asked by the Prime Minister to draw up proposals on internet safety, said that big ideological divides remained over the scope of online regulations and who should enforce them. An independent person to pursue progress at the organisation, which has representatives from 100 different groups, had still not been appointed. Dr Byron is frustrated that a national strategy on child safety has been delayed fro
