CHILDREN’S charity NSPCC accused the government yesterday of “dragging its feet” over online safety as it had failed to implement “urgent recommendations” made in its report a decade ago.

NSPCC trustee Professor Tanya Byron called for a “legally enforceable safety code” to keep children safe on social networks as it was “much too late for a voluntary code.”

Ms Byron’s 2008 report, Safer Children in a Digital World, was commissioned by then prime minister Gordon Brown to review young people’s use of the internet and video games.