Ms Fiona Jennings:

For us at the ISPCC, we have talked a lot about regulating the content that children see. It is becoming more and more apparent that it is the design of the products themselves that is actually more harmful than the content. I am talking about the architecture behind how these systems and products are designed - the recommender systems. While we cannot turn off recommender systems, they certainly can be designed in a better way that serves up content but does not necessarily keep eyeballs on screens for the length of time that we see. In the ISPCC we have seen the impact of that where children are glued to devices into the early hours of the morning. That is impacting on their sleep and that is then impacting their trying to get up in the morning and go to school.