Would you do? would you do? personally i think it was fine as would you do? personally i think it was fine as it would you do? personally i think it was fine as it was, would you do? personally i think it was fine as it was, i would you do? personally i think it was fine as it was, i don t - would you do? personally i think it was fine as it was, i don t think - was fine as it was, i don t think making individual officers in facebook, twitter, meta or tiktok criminal eala liable would make children any safer, i think those companies were already on board and there was already a processing ofcom to work with those companies make sure they were held accountable and, importantly, they were transparent about the measures they were taking so members of the public could see whether they were doing enough. really good to speak to you, dr victoria baines. thank you. the metropolitan police will formally dismiss pc david carrick, who pleaded guilty to 49 sexual offences, including doze
This is bbc news with the latest headlines. the government has conceded to a backbench rebellion and accepted that managers at online companies should face prison if they fail to protect children from harmful content. a misconduct hearing this morning will formally dismiss david carrick from the metropolitan police, after he admitted dozens of sexual offences including rapes. the uk s largest education union has announced that teachers will strike in england and wales on seven dates in february and march over pay. a constitutional row develops between the uk and scottish governments after westminster announces plans to block a scottish bill designed to make it easierfor people to change their legal gender. china s population has fallen for the first time in 60 years, with the national birth rate hitting
To a backbench rebellion and accepted that managers at online companies should face prison if they fail to protect children from harmful content. a misconduct hearing this morning will formally dismiss david carrick from the metropolitan police, after he admitted dozens of sexual offences including rapes. the uk s largest education union has announced that teachers will strike in england and wales on seven dates in february and march over pay. teachers in england and wales have voted in favour of strike action in a dispute about pay. the national education union says its members will walk out for seven days during february and march, with several regional dates too. more than 23,000 schools will be affected. education secretary gillian keegan has called the strike vote deeply disappointing . speaking on bbc breakfast news earlier, the education secretary said schools were given extra financial support in the autumn statement. actually the first thing i did when i got thejob on actuall
Sexual abuse material, there already procedures in place for these big us tech companies are obliged by the law in the us to report this content and take it down, to protect children. what has not been clear until very recently is the more generic content of what is harmful for children, i don t mean that it s less serious but, for example, suicidal ideation, self harm promotion, the content you spoken about. my understanding is the big us tech companies are absolutely primed to face up to that responsibility, to work with the regulator ofcom to show they are doing another. where we have other popular platforms like those based in china, i don t think there was any guarantee a chinese platform will care very much about what uk legislation is trying to force them to do. tt t legislation is trying to force them to do. ., , ., ., legislation is trying to force them to do. ., ., ., . ., legislation is trying to force them todo. ., ., ., . ., ., to do. if i gave you a magic wand to make thi
Let s get more on this from our chief political correspondent, nick eardley. as you heard, labour as saying the bill does not go far enough, but it has been a long time coming. do you think it goes far enough? think it goes far enough? hasn t it been a long think it goes far enough? hasn t it been a long time think it goes far enough? hasn t it been a long time coming? - think it goes far enough? hasn t it been a long time coming? the - think it goes far enough? hasn t it been a long time coming? the bill has changed in various iterations and what the government has conceded today really matters, because they thought they few years ago about putting on this criminal liability for tax bosses if companies do not protect children online, they decided not to do that and the government is being forced by its own backbenchers to put this back in criminal liability for tech bosses. we do not have the specific wording of what the government is promising, they have not published yet and