{"id":221592,"date":"2026-03-09T11:12:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T15:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/09\/uk-government-launches-much-anticipated-consultation-on-childrens-online-wellbeing-privacy-protection\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T11:15:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T15:15:10","slug":"uk-government-launches-much-anticipated-consultation-on-childrens-online-wellbeing-privacy-protection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/09\/uk-government-launches-much-anticipated-consultation-on-childrens-online-wellbeing-privacy-protection\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Government Launches Much Anticipated Consultation On Children&#8217;s Online Wellbeing &#8211; Privacy Protection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mondaq.com\/uk\/privacy-protection\/1754320\/uk-government-launches-much-anticipated-consultation-on-childrens-online-wellbeing\">UK Government Launches Much Anticipated Consultation On Children&#8217;s Online Wellbeing &#8211; Privacy Protection<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mondaq.com\/uk\/privacy-protection\/1754320\/uk-government-launches-much-anticipated-consultation-on-childrens-online-wellbeing\">https:\/\/www.mondaq.com\/uk\/privacy-protection\/1754320\/uk-government-launches-much-anticipated-consultation-on-childrens-online-wellbeing<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-09 11:12:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.mondaq.com\">www.mondaq.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Laura  Harper\u2019s articles from Lewis Silkin are most popular:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>in United Kingdom<\/li>\n<li>with readers working within the Business &#038; Consumer Services industries<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Lewis Silkin are most popular: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>within Cannabis &#038; Hemp topic(s)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The UK government has launched its much-trailed consultation on UK children&#8217;s digital<br \/>\nwellbeing, covering social media age bans, curfews, AI chatbots and<br \/>\ngaming.<\/p>\n<p>This consultation will look at three main areas. First, it will<br \/>\nexamine whether new measures, including age-based restrictions,<br \/>\ncould help keep children safer online. Second, it will consider the<br \/>\nrole of enforcement, both in applying any new rules and in<br \/>\nstrengthening the ones that already exist. And third, it will look<br \/>\nat the wider ecosystem: how children and parents can best be<br \/>\nsupported to get information about staying safe online and develop<br \/>\nskills that set them up for the future.<\/p>\n<p>The key topics are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>whether there should be a minimum age for social media, and if<br \/>\nso, what age would be right;<\/li>\n<li>whether platforms should be required to switch off features<br \/>\nlike infinite scrolling and autoplay;<\/li>\n<li>whether mandatory overnight curfews would help children sleep<br \/>\nbetter and what age they should apply to;<\/li>\n<li>whether children should be able to use AI chatbots without<br \/>\nrestrictions;<\/li>\n<li>how age verification enforcement should be strengthened;<br \/>\nand<\/li>\n<li>how to help children and parents navigate the digital world and<br \/>\nthrive online.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The consultation ends on 26 May 2026. The government says that<br \/>\nit will respond in the summer and act swiftly on the feedback to<br \/>\nthe consultation.<\/p>\n<h3>The EU picture<\/h3>\n<p>Some of these issues are also being considered by the EU in the<br \/>\ncontext of its proposed Digital Fairness Act,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mondaq.com\/uk\/privacy-protection\/1754320\/uk-government-launches-much-anticipated-consultation-on-childrens-online-wellbeing\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK Government Launches Much Anticipated Consultation On Children&#8217;s Online Wellbeing &#8211; Privacy Protection https:\/\/www.mondaq.com\/uk\/privacy-protection\/1754320\/uk-government-launches-much-anticipated-consultation-on-childrens-online-wellbeing Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":221593,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"http:\/\/www.mondaq.com\/images\/profile\/companythumb\/3442.webp?v=20241101121852","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221592"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221592"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":221594,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221592\/revisions\/221594"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}