Campaigners want the new digital safety bill to tighten regulation of tech giants and focus on protecting young females
Greater online protection for girls is urgently needed, say experts, after new analysis revealed that 84% of grooming offences recorded under a law that makes it illegal to send sexual messages to children involved female victims.
It is the first time that the gender of victims in police records has been made public since sexual communication with children became an offence four years ago.
