DAYS OF LOT: Children as young as seven are now sexting

Children as young as seven are using social media to share sexual messages, pictures or videos, research has found. More than half of teachers said they knew of pupils who had used social media for “sexting”, the poll by the NASUWT teachers’ union said.

A quarter of the 1,300 teachers polled knew of pupils involved in sexting who were as young as 11, but the youngest child reported was just seven. The majority of the pupils involved were aged between 13 and 16. READ MORE