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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Lisa O'Carroll in Brussels

Revealed: EU plan for ‘schoolyard guardians’ to help tackle illegal online content

Kids playing video games on smart phones
One of the challenges the European Commission faces is building awareness of the laws to ensure children remain in a safe digital space. Photograph: Kerkez/Getty Images

The EU wants to recruit an army of “schoolyard guardians” to raise awareness of the world’s first laws to fight online harms including child sexual abuse and content featuring eating disorders and suicide, the Guardian has learned.

The EU commissioner Thierry Breton, who is responsible for the laws that came into force last month, is preparing ambitious plans to make sure children, parents and teachers know how to report content that is now not only harmful but illegal.

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