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Media: Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the role of media literacy in helping children identify misleading or harmful online content.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body: Department for Education
Tabled: 5 Feb 2026
Target answer date: 9 Feb 2026
Answer: 12 Feb 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

5 Feb 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the role of media literacy in helping children identify misleading or harmful online content.
9 Feb 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 Feb 2026
Answer published
Media literacy is currently covered in the citizenship, relationships, sex and health education (RSHE) and computing curricula.Following publication of the independent Curriculum and Assessment Review’s final report on 5 November 2025, vital applied knowl...

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