Government will ‘come back to VPNs’ in next step of social media ban

Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology Liz Kendall (Picture: Wiktor Szymanowicz/Shutterstock)

You may have seen the government is planning to block under-16s from accessing many of the top social media sites.

But you might have missed that they’re also planning a second bite at the cherry next month.

What more is there to announce?

Plenty, apparently. In March, the government launched a pilot programme that ran alongside the hefty three-month consultation on children’s online safety.

It involved 300 teenagers in all four nations of the UK being given one of four ‘interventions’ to see how they handled it.

One group had...