Media habits (children)

Children’s Media Use and Attitudes

Published: 27 September 2023

Last updated: 7 May 2025

Our research includes findings relating to parents’ views about their children’s media use, and the ways that parents seek to – or decide not to – monitor or limit use of different types of media.

Children's Media Lives

Published: 19 April 2023

Last updated: 7 May 2025

A research project which follows 21 children, aged 8-18 since 2014, interviewing them on camera each year about their media habits and attitudes.

Top trends from our latest look at the UK’s media lives

Published: 7 May 2025

Our Media Use and Attitudes and Media Lives reports – of which the adults’ research is now in its twentieth year - highlight online and media use by asking children and adults across the UK about the role that tech and media play in their lives.

Children and parents: media use and attitudes report 2025 – interactive data

Published: 7 May 2025

This report looks at media use, attitudes and understanding among children and young people aged 3-17.

Children and parents: media use and attitudes report 2024

Published: 19 April 2024

This report looks at media use, attitudes and understanding among children and young people aged 3-17.

Children and parents: media use and attitudes report 2024 – interactive data

Published: 19 April 2024

This report looks at media use, attitudes and understanding among children and young people aged 3-17. It also includes findings on parents’ views about their children’s media use, and how parents of children and young people aged 3-17 monitor and manage their children’s use.

Children and parents: media use and attitudes report 2023

Published: 29 March 2023

This report looks at media use, attitudes and understanding among children and young people aged 3-17.

Children and parents: media use and attitudes report 2023 – interactive data

Published: 29 March 2023

This report looks at media use, attitudes and understanding among children and young people aged 3-17. It also includes findings on parents’ views about their children’s media use, and how parents of children and young people aged 3-17 monitor and manage their children’s use.

Children and parents: media use and attitudes report 2022 – interactive data

Published: 10 November 2022

Children and parents: media use and attitudes report 2022

Published: 30 March 2022

This report looks at media use, attitudes and understanding among children and young people aged 3-17.

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