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It is a weakness in the Act that user-to-user services are required only to ensure that their minimum age limits are enforced consistently. If you go into any primary school today, you will discover that they are indeed enforced consistently—consistently, most children aged under 13 are on the platforms. They are therefore not effective at all. It is a huge yawning gap that there is nothing in these codes that will change whether children aged under 13 access products that are definitely not appropriate for them. The NSPCC estimates that 2.5 million children are bypassing self-declaration age checks. That is your nine year-old grandchild saying that they are okay to use Facebook, Snapchat, Insta or, God forbid, much worse platforms.