Eurochild has compiled recommendations as to how to appropriately keep children safe online. In the face of ongoing concerns about children’s safety online, some member states of the European Union are seeking to adopt legislation that would effectively ban children and young people under the age of 15 or 16 from the internet. Eurochild’s suggestions are all based on the understanding, that while children and young people need protection, this cannot mean that they are excluded from the online world entirely. Taking access to the internet would also mean to take crucial ways to exercise their rights to freedom of expression, information, education and participation away.  

Eurochild’s Policy recommendations are: