Parents would receive alerts if their children search for disturbing content on phones, under plans being considered by ministers.
The proposal is expected to be included in the government’s consultation on smartphones and social media, which will be published this month.
A ban on social media and sales of smartphones for under-16s will form part of the consultation, which aims to build on measures in the Online Safety Act to protect children. Esther Ghey, the mother of Brianna, 16, who was murdered by two teenagers last year, proposed the parental alert system this year.
Esther Ghey, mother of the murdered teenager Brianna Ghey, is a key advocate of a system of alerts to warn parents
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She said: “If any words are being searched like the words that were searched during the run-up [to Brianna’s murder] … it could be flagged up on a parent’s phone,
