“There’s a growing concern about the normalisation of harmful and risky financial behaviours online [...] all those factors, all those trends are going to make this a really hard problem to solve.” 

Our 2023 report found that those aged 13-18 spend over £50m per week when online. 

This economic independence, however, means that young people are increasingly at risk of finance-related harms; things like scams, influencer marketing, and criminal exploitation. 

The term ‘child financial harms’ describes damaging experiences that have money as a component. With funding from Nominet, last year we established a consortium to help understand and tackle this issue.

In this episode, Maya Daver-Massion and Zixuan Fu – part of the security and online safety team at PUBLIC – join us to look at child financial harms in more detail, discuss why they are overlooked, and consider the possible impact of emerging technology.

You can listen to the episode in full, here.