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As an ambassador for the Young Camden Foundation, I recently had the privilege of attending the council’s most recent youth safety steering meeting. The meeting brought together representatives from different organisations and schools who work in the local area, dedicated to addressing the challenges our borough is facing in keeping its young people safe, proposing solutions to these challenges and giving general updates on how the progress that’s been made.

Proposed government legislation to tackle online harms would fail to prevent the sharing of some of the most “insidious” images of child abuse and violence against women and girls, according to an influential group of MPs. Scrutiny by the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) committee of the Draft Online Safety Bill has found that in its current form, the legislation is neither clear nor robust enough to tackle certain types of illegal and harmful content on user-to-user and search services. Chair of the DCMS committee Julian Knight MP said: “In its current form what should be world-leading, landmark legislation instead represents a missed opportunity.