{"id":12848,"date":"2026-04-10T16:44:50","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T15:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/fvpp\/?p=12848"},"modified":"2026-04-10T16:44:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T15:44:50","slug":"consultation-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/fvpp\/consultation-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Consultation: Social Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">On Monday\u00a02nd March, the UK Government <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/landmark-consultation-seeks-views-on-major-measures-to-protect-children-on-social-media-gaming-platforms-and-ai-chatbots?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=govuk-notifications-topic&amp;utm_source=e424ca3d-f898-472f-bc63-fccaf6498f5d&amp;utm_content=immediately\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">launched<\/a>\u202fa <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/consultations\/growing-up-in-the-online-world-a-national-consultation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">consultation<\/a>\u00a0seeking views on measures to protect children online, including consideration of a ban on social media for under-16s and restrictions on AI chatbot features. Alongside the consultation, the\u00a0UK\u00a0Government\u00a0is set to run real-world pilots with families and teenagers to\u00a0explore\u202fhow these restrictions could work in practice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday\u00a02nd March, the UK Government launched\u202fa consultation\u00a0seeking views on measures to protect children online, including consideration of a ban on social media for under-16s and restrictions on AI chatbot features. Alongside the consultation, the\u00a0UK\u00a0Government\u00a0is set to run real-world pilots with families and teenagers to\u00a0explore\u202fhow these restrictions could work in practice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79224,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/fvpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/fvpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/fvpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/fvpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/fvpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12848"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/fvpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12850,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/fvpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12848\/revisions\/12850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/fvpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/fvpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/glowblogs\/fvpp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}