Speaking at the Google ‘Big Tent’ conference in near Watford, Ms Hunter claimed that an improved way to tackle children seeing inappropriate material online was for parents to talk to young people while they were using the web. “The best thing we can do is make sure parents sit with their children on the interent when they’re very young and have conversations with older children about sex in general,” she said. Government campaigns such as Get Safe Online have previously advocated that approach too, she said.