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Parents want more information to protect gamers as young as four, survey finds

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Parents are being urged to have ‘valuable conversations’ with their young children around video game safety.

The call has come from gaming experts following a survey of parents of four- to five-year-olds, revealing that more than eight in ten (83 per cent) want more information around controls they can put in place.

Managing screen time, in-game purchases, online interactions, and access to age-appropriate content are among areas parents of young children want advice with.

The survey has been carried out by games industry trade body UK Interactive Entertainment (Ukie).

This found that most parents are already using some parental controls around their children’s gaming, with 93 per cent of parents of four- to five-year-olds setting up at least one parental control on their child’s device.

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