Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 7:04 pm on 30 November 2022.
Children and young people are highly engaged internet users at increasingly younger ages, as we've heard in the debate this evening. It's no surprise that Ofcom's latest 'Children and parents: media use and attitudes report 2022' found that 99 per cent of children went online last year. Growing up in this digital age, children do not differentiate their online and offline lives in the same way as older generations. They are one and the same. Children and young people expect their rights to be equally upheld online as they do offline, and they are right to do so. As a Government, we are fully committed to making the principles of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child a reality for all children in Wales, and I was pleased that, last year, the UNCRC adopted general comment 25, which now sees children's rights apply online as they do offline.