MPs Sunniva Holmås Eidsvoll and Mirell Høyer-Berntsen tabled a proposal to improve digital safety in schools. The Standing Committee on Education and Research recommends that the government task the Directorate for Education and Training with supporting municipalities in deploying ad-free school devices and blocking harmful content, while updating guidance with concrete measures. A minority of MPs from the Socialist Left Party, Red Party, and Liberal Party propose additional measures including legal requirements for content filters, ad-blocking, and parental controls on devices taken home.
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The Storting calls on the government to task the Directorate for Education and Training with supporting municipalities in establishing ad-free and distraction-free school devices, along with privacy-friendly browsers and search engines, and blocking risky content and harmful websites.
The Storting calls on the government to update the Directorate for Education and Training's guidance with concrete measures to ensure ad-free and distraction-free school devices and privacy-friendly browsers and search engines, block risky content, prevent school devices from being sent home without parental controls, and clarify schools' legal obligations regarding digital tools and how to enforce them.
The Storting calls on the government to submit legislation requiring schools to deploy content filters blocking websites with harmful content and removing advertisements, and ensuring that when school devices are taken home, parents have authority over them.
The Storting calls on the government to develop a plan for implementing and enforcing content filters on school devices in primary education, incorporating at minimum the Police Security Service's list of harmful websites, and report back to the Storting accordingly.
The Storting calls on the government to propose how time restrictions on school devices in primary education can be implemented so children cannot use school devices between 11 pm and 6 am.
The Storting calls on the government to develop a clear national strategy for communicating with parents about school devices and what access parents should have.
The Storting calls on the government to ensure that students in lower primary school do not receive personal digital devices.
The Storting calls on the government to present a plan showing how the Ministry of Education will require school authorities to ensure students do not take devices with harmful content home.