Children’s experiences of using online services

We conduct this research twice a year among UK children aged 8–17 using an online panel. Data collection was also carried out in schools, with findings from the primary school sample, capturing children’s recalled exposure to harmful content, now published. 

Findings from the primary in-schools samples should be interpreted as indicative only, given the size and nature of the sample. The sample was neither designed nor weighted to be representative. Nonetheless, it provides valuable insight into younger children’s reported experiences of harmful content online. 

Exposure to non-designated content has been excluded from the Wave 2 in the wave-on-wave tables to aid comparability with the Wave 1 data. Data on this exposure is, however, included in the Wave 2 standalone tables.