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Children are speaking to strangers online – and grooming is on the rise. This is how to protect them | Devi Sridhar

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Abuse isn’t an easy subject to raise or talk about, especially during childhood.

Research from Childlight , a child safety charity at the University of Edinburgh , has shown a steep rise in online grooming cases.

It estimates that about 830,000 young people worldwide are at risk of social exploitation and abuse every day .

Prof Devi Sridhar is chair of global public health at the University of Edinburgh .

If we want to protect mental health of young people, we need to start where the damage begins and that means looking directly at the hard truths, online and off.

We owe it to our children to intervene earlier, to prevent that crisis from occurring.