People on the street: How do we keep kids safe online?

We went out into Manchester to ask people on the street how we should balance kids’ access to games and their online safety.

Transcript

00:00Hello and welcome to Manchester World. My name is Theo Cusenbeth and today I'm out on the streets

00:03of Manchester asking people about gaming and child safety. Now gaming can be a really great

00:08way for people to be socialised. As kids it means spending a lot of time talking to new people,

00:13experiencing different things, but there can be some safety issues whether it's grooming or

00:17inappropriate language. So we want to know where people strike the balance between allowing kids

00:21to game and keeping them safe online. I mean I think there should be sort of a limit. Obviously

00:28too much screen time is obviously bad, but I think completely banning it isn't that positive

00:35in the long run really. It's that kind of thing that if you were to limit it and stop kids from

00:39playing on computer games, video games, social media, all of that sort of rhetoric moment,

00:45I think they would just find ways to access it anyway. I think kids are a little bit more

00:49sensible than we give them credit for. You know I have a little brother, he's 13, and I feel like

00:54some of the stuff he says, I wouldn't be saying that at my age when I was 13.