Earlier today Ed Balls, the Secretary for the Department for Children, Schools and Families in the British government, announced a review of the impacts of inappropriate material on the Internet and on video games on children. The independent review will be headed by Dr. Tanya Byron, a clinical psychologist, according to a report today by the Times Online.
"By issuing my call for evidence today, I want to start a debate about how Government, industry and society as a whole can support parents to guide our children into the virtual world, with the same confidence as when we show them how to stay safe in our local community," explained Dr. Byron. The review will consult parents, children, and industry experts to find out more about children's use of video games and the Internet, and the regulations currently in place to protect children.
The findings will be released in March of 2008. Governments and organizations around the world must learn from the British example to discover the impacts of pornography on children in their own countries.
CP80 encourages nations to not only seek to understand the impacts, but to take decisive and effective measures to protect children.
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