Increasing number of children contacting helpline after seeing porn online
Oct 16, 2016, 01:06 PM
An increasing number of children across Scotland are contacting a charity helpline over worries after seeing online porn.
NSPCC-run helpline Childline's bases in Glasgow and Aberdeen took 248 calls from young people on the issue in the past two years - 119 in 2014/15 and 129 in 2015/16.
Across the UK the number of calls by children worried by online porn has increased by 60% in the same two-year period, from 529 to 844.
More than half of the callers in 2015/16 were aged 12-15 but 10% were 11 or younger.
Elaine Chalmers is from Childline: