Tanya Byron Review ...

Today's papers and the News channels are full of reports of the review by Dr Tanya Byron into 'the effects of online content and video game violence on children and young people'.

The BBC featured it on their early morning Breakfast programme and bloggers (!) have been recording sightings of the information for the last four hours or so.



You can read the diverse views in the National press here: The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, The Times (The Independent chose not to feature it)

You can listen to a Guardian interview with Dr Tanya Byron, Ed Balls and Andy Burnham here.

Ewan Mcintosh has come out up front commenting on the dilemma of allowing children to take risks without them actually being exposed to any. We have over the last thirty or so years gradually reduced the area of risk taking for our young people until, frightened by the paranoia into not playing out they now seek to risk take in virtual worlds ... if we stop this where will they go next to grow up?

I have just been informed of the link to the report (thanks Pete) and am reading ... so more here when I have digested bits of it.

PS

Unusually for me (you might say) I feel that this is not the time to comment rather a time to read and reflect on what has been written but (I can't resist) I like the way the case has been presented for children and young people and love the analogy about road safety in the exec summary (especially as it is one I have been using for a long while now)