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Review: What protection do children in Jersey have from online harms

Committee/Panel: Children, Education & Home Affairs Panel
Launch Date: 7 February 2025 Close Date: To be advised
Submissions Deadline: To be advised Ministerial Response Date: To be advised
Review Status: Gathering evidence

The Children, Education and Home Affairs Scrutiny Panel, has launched a review on 7th of Febuary 2025. The Panel intends to write to Goverment Ministers for information, as well as a number of key stakeholders. It will be seeking further views and arranging public hearings later on in the year. 
 

About

The Panel held a standalone hearing on the subject of ‘Online Safety for Children in Jersey’ on 4th October 2024 with the Minister for Children and Families, Minister for Justice and Home Affairs and the Minister for Sustainable Economic Development which sought to collect further information from Government about its approach to online safety for children and, also, to understand why the Government did not exercise the option to request a permissive extent clause for the UK’s Online Safety Act.
 
Following the hearing, the Panel agreed to focus further on this subject, including assessment of the next planned steps to be taken by Government for future work on domestic legislation.
 
Through this review, the Panel wants to understand how Government is working across departments to address potential harm to children and young people through online platforms and digital content and, also, consider how children in Jersey are protected through existing legislation and policy. As part of the review, the Panel will gather evidence which considers the role of education, family and culture in the protection of children against online harms and, also, what is considered to be good practice in other jurisdictions.
 

 

Terms of reference

  1. To examine and establish the protection in place for children in Jersey from online harms, to include consideration of:
      1. Legislation;
      1. Regulation;
      1. Government policy;
      1. The role of internet service providers and technology;
      1. The role of social media platforms, content providers and content creators; and
      1. The role of education, family, and culture.
  8. To establish what is considered good practice, and strong safeguarding, for children within online environments and a digital world and consider this in the context of Jersey’s position.