For our kids' sake.. ban social media

UK voters back Australia-style laws to keep children from online harm

- BY ALEXANDER BROWN

THE UK Government has been warned it is failing children by ruling out a ban on social media for under-16s.

Keir Starmer has suggested he is against an Australia-style block which came in Down Under this month.

But a majority of the public support barring platforms such as TikTok, Snapchat and Instagram for kids, research by Deltapoll revealed.

Nearly two-thirds - 64 per cent - of UK voters would get behind a ban, while just 19 per cent oppose the idea, who is chair of the Children's Online Safety all-party parliamentary group, warned ministers "the status quo is failing children".

She said: "These figures show the public is well ahead of the political debate. Parents can see the harm unregulated social media is doing to children and they want action.