Teenagers at more risk online than Interrailing in Europe, say experts

Debate follows TV presenter Kirstie Allsopp's decision to let 15-year-old make independent trip

Safeguarding experts and child psychologists have said the risks to teenagers are increasingly far greater" online at home than when travelling independently following the row about the television presenter Kirstie Allsopp allowing her teenage son to go Interrailing.

A debate on the protection of teenagers was prompted by Allsopp, who revealed that social services had interviewed her after she posted online about her son, then 15, taking a rail trip around Europe after his GCSEs.