YouTube urged by Nandy to promote higher quality children’s content

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Get our free View from Westminster email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Ms Nandy, who has a nine-year-old son, said: “This is something that affects my family, like every family around the country.” She told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “A lot of the content that we make here in the UK is very high quality content directed towards children. It’s often not as high quality as the sort of content that the public service broadcasters and the commercial broadcasters are producing.” Ms Nandy, appearing on Today which was guest edited by former children’s presenter Baroness Floella Benjamin, said: “I’ve written to the video-sharing platforms. “We were very struck by the fact that the last government had run a scheme where they put more investment into children’s content, but what they found was that, although that meant that more high quality content was made, children weren’t necessarily watching it, and we think that’s because children weren’t able to find it. The safety of our users is our main priority, and our mission is to ensure that our platform provides kids and teens with safe, age-appropriate online experiences that allow them to learn, grow and explore YouTube YouTube told the BBC: “The safety of our users is our main priority, and our mission is to ensure that our platform provides kids and teens with safe, age-appropriate online experiences that allow them to learn, grow and explore.” Former Play School presenter Lady Benjamin said: “I feel that children’s programmes as we know them is in crisis, in turmoil, because children are migrating to online platforms, unregulated platforms.