Select committee: Education Committee
Recommendation 4
2nd Report - Reading for Pleasure
Published 17 Jul 2026
Addressed to Department for Education
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Recommendation (the committee's words)
The government must implement in full the remaining recommendations of our response to its consultation on Growing up in the Online World as a first step to tackling the harmful effects of screen time on children. In particular, it must introduce mandatory restrictions on high-risk and addictive design features, such as infinite scrolling, disappearing messages and algorithmic messages for under-18s, with appropriate age-related restrictions enabled by default. (Recommendation, Paragraph 24)
From: Education Committee, 2nd Report - Reading for Pleasure (HC 150), 17 July 2026
Government response
No government response linked yet: deadline 17 September 2026, 45 days ago.