Children getting their first mobile phone at Christmas should be taught about online safety, advisors say.
Parents thinking of giving children a mobile phone for Christmas should treat it as a gift that needs safety equipment - much like providing a helmet with a bike, safety bosses have said.The Lincolnshire Stay Safe Partnership, which runs classes and workshops about online safety in schools, said it was aware of children as young as six or seven who had discovered inappropriate material on their phones.
Kathryn Smith, from the Lincolnshire County Council-led team, said: "If we give our kid a bike for Christmas, we're going to give them a helmet because there's a probability that if they're learning to ride a bike, they're going to fall off, and we would talk to our children about that risk," she said.
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