The Online Safety Bill returns to Parliament today.
Barnardo's Chief Executive Lynn Perry MBE said:
“The Online Safety Bill is a major step forward in making the internet safer for children.
“However, we remain concerned that the current proposals will not on their own do enough to protect children. Every day, children are being exposed to extreme pornography online which harms their mental health, their understanding of healthy relationships and normalises sexual abuse.
“Measures need to be strengthened so that companies must be satisfied beyond reasonable doubt that no child can stumble across harmful content. Online and offline standards must also be aligned, to prohibit content which sexualises children through the use of adult actors pretending to be children, which is both prevalent online yet illegal offline."