Member

Regarding the part of Amendment 38X from the noble Lord, Lord Nash, on supporting children’s understanding of user-to-user services, proposed new Clause 214C, the Government’s response to the curriculum and assessment review sets out how the revised curriculum will take forward recommendations to strengthen media literacy to enable young people to critically engage with the messages that they encounter through different media channels and ensure that they can identify and challenge misinformation and disinformation. Media literacy will be embedded in the new primary citizenship curriculum and strengthened across relevant subjects. Following recent updates to relationships, sex and health education guidance, it now includes content on AI and deepfakes. It explains how social media works and provides guidance on countering sexual health misinformation. The updated guidance will be used in schools from this September.