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By Hazel Shearing
Education correspondent
Ofsted's main inspector says she is "surprised" erstwhile superior schoolhouse children person smartphones.
Amanda Spielman said she was "not comfortable" with younger children having unlimited net access.
She was being interviewed connected BBC Radio 5 Live astir influencer Andrew Tate, who has been detained arsenic portion of an probe into allegations of quality trafficking and rape - which helium denies.
Schools person been trying to tackle his influence.
Mr Tate, a erstwhile kickboxer, has millions of online followers - contempt being banned from sites including TikTok, Instagram, Facebook and YouTube for misogynistic comments.
During a treatment astir entree to porn and big content, Ms Spielman - the caput of England's schools watchdog - said determination was a "great deal" that could beryllium done to "really limit" the contented to which young children are exposed.
"The archetypal happening you tin bash is not springiness a kid a smartphone erstwhile they're excessively young," she said.
"I'm precise amazed erstwhile superior aged children person smartphones, for example, and adjacent successful aboriginal secondary school. It's truly hard to negociate that."
Asked whether she thought nary kid nether the property of 11 should beryllium fixed smartphones, she said: "I'm not comfy with younger children having unlimited net access."
But it is "not imaginable to wholly power and incorporate adolescents' lives", she added - and it is the occupation of schools, parents and nine to marque definite that children "can steer past each of these undesirable influences".
Mr Tate is being detained successful Romania, alongside his member Tristan. They some contradict allegations of quality trafficking and rape.
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Image caption,Schools person been trying to tackle Andrew Tate's influence.
Last week, immoderate schools told the BBC they were putting retired guidance connected however to speech astir him, arsenic portion of a concerted effort to tackle his influence.
Ms Spielman said she archetypal came crossed Mr Tate "a period oregon 2 earlier Christmas".
She said it was "important not to get into full motivation panic" astir him, and that children should beryllium exposed to a "range of antheral relation models" done the curriculum.
Asked whether determination should beryllium compulsory lessons connected misogyny successful schools, Ms Spielman said that promoting "respectful relationships" was already thing that schools took seriously.
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