Member

As for the part of the noble Lord’s amendment on supporting children’s understanding of user-to-user services, proposed new Section 214C, as I emphasised the last time we discussed this, 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 they encounter through different media channels and to 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. Recent updates to relationship, sex and health education guidance also include content on AI and deepfakes. It explains how social media works and provides guidance on countering sexual health misinformation, for example. The updated guidance will be used in schools from September 2026.