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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Lizzy Buchan

Parents told to buy children phones without internet to protect them from online harm

Parents could buy phones without internet access for their kids to protect them from harmful online content, the Children's Commissioner has said.

Dame Rachel de Souza expressed alarm at some of the material young people are seeing on the internet, and said parents "should think long and hard about monitored access to social media or actually access to social media at all".

The children's tsar pointed to the tragic case of 14-year-old Molly Russell, who viewed graphic posts about suicide and self harm before taking her own life.

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