Thank you very much, and I'd like to start by thanking Bethan Sayed for bringing forward this short debate on such an important topic today and for doing so in such an engaging and interesting way, but also doing real justice to the seriousness of the issue. I think that that was also very much in the contributions of Jack and Lynne as well.

The internet is an incredible tool. In a matter of moments, we can be searching for the weird and wonderful as well as the mundane. We can be shopping online, watching the latest box sets, playing Minecraft with someone on a different continent, or comparing your thoughts on the latest country music albums—which is how I spend my spare time—but also keeping up to date on the latest news and talking to family and friends as well. So much of modern life is accessed through the internet. It's hard to remember sometimes how we managed before, and it is really quite something to think of children and young people today—the fact that they have not known a world without the internet. For them in particular, digital skills will be so important in terms of their resilience in life but also in terms of how they progress in education and in work.

In many ways, it's young people who are leading the way, and I know from experience that young people are the ones who are best placed to tell us about the latest app or the latest social media platform and how to best use it. But, of course, amongst all of these benefits, there is a real cost, and we've heard about the darker side to the internet. Cyber bullying, grooming and stalking are all issues that have become too familiar. We have to protect children and young people and, indeed, as we've heard, adults, from the dangers of the internet. However, simply excluding people from a world online is neither appropriate nor desirable. We must instead equip people with the knowledge and the skills that they need to be able to think critically and navigate the digital world in a safe, responsible and respectful way. Last year, the Welsh Government published the national online safety action plan. Officially launched by my colleague Kirsty Williams at Porthcawl Comprehensive School on 14 November, the plan provides a focus for our online safety work. Building on our existing programme, it provides a strategic vision for the work that we will do to enhance online safety in Wales to ensure that we do keep children and young people safe. And this is supported by the online safety zone, hosted on Hwb, which is a dedicated area to support teachers, families and learners in this critical area.

But, of course, online safety isn't the only issue, as we've heard—body image and body shaming, distorted perceptions caused by filters and Photoshopping are all causing very real problems for people today. Every day we're faced with messages that tell us that we just aren't good enough. We see so many images of people who are apparently perfect and we don't actually see the many layers of filters or the numerous deleted images that have gone before. There is a growing body of evidence that shows the harm that this is causing, particularly to young people. So, over the last few months, we've published educational resources, examining body image and self-worth in a digital world. The aim is to encourage discussion about the effect of the internet on body image and on self-esteem. We hope to show children and young people how they can instead develop a positive sense of themselves in the world and by taking control and by developing resilience.

There are other aspects to online life that can also be harmful. We may have thousands of followers on Twitter or Instagram but very few real friends. Through social media, we're more connected than we've ever been before and this can bring positive benefits—people can search out support groups, find local tradespeople and local activities to do. However, there is a downside to this connectivity, which Lynne Neagle has spoken about, because living our lives online can lead to real loneliness and social isolation, and that can have a detrimental impact on our mental and our physical well-being.

We know that good health is not simply a result of good healthcare, and that economic, environmental and social issues all have a significant part to play in our long-term health and well-being. So, we have published resources on mental health and the internet. These seek to stimulate conversations in the classroom about the positive and negative impacts of the internet, and we've worked with Childnet to develop, Trust me Cymru. The resource was developed to help primary and secondary teachers to educate children to critically evaluate information that they find online, including content that might seek to deliberately influence their opinions.