When we look back 10 or even just five years, parents and teachers would give children access to the internet hoping that, in the majority of instances, the filtering software installed would protect them from inappropriate material.
Although not 100 per cent effective, this process meant that access to unsuitable material was rare.
Today 50 to 60 per cent of school-aged children now have SmartPhones and are now free to access any websites, social media pages and videos on YouTube, leaving web filtering applications completely ineffectual.
Even if we could bring in controls, the number of occasions that young people will be faced with information inappropriate to their age, changes daily.
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