Children under 3 in the UK and digital tech: policy recommendations

Flewitt, Rosie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1986-0644, El Gemayel, Sandra ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4024-0415, Arnott, Lorna, Gillen, Julia, Goodall, Janet, Winter, Karen, Dalziell, Andrew, Liu, Minchen, Savadova, Sabina and Timmins, Sarah (2024) Children under 3 in the UK and digital tech: policy recommendations. Research: Toddlers, Tech and Talk.

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Abstract

Recommendations for policy on young children's digital technology use. The experiences of children with digital technology have attracted a great deal of attention in recent years. There is also much concern about babies and toddlers’ earliest interactions with digital media, although most evidence is anecdotal. Our ESRC funded project (2022-2024) is the only contemporary large-scale project researching 0-36-month-old children’s technology use at home in diverse communities across the UK.