Almost one in five kids has been bullied online

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Nearly one in every five schoolchildren aged 10 to 15 have been bullied online, new figures show. Shockingly, one in 10 say they have also received a sexual message.

More than 92 percent of children go online daily, with 30% saying they use the internet "almost all the time", according to figures released by the Office for National Statistics on Thursday.

The results of the 10 to 15-year-olds' Crime Survey for England and Wales also showed almost one in five children had spoken online with someone they had never met in person. READ NEXT: How one 'faulty valve' sparked a major incident in Trafford The survey, which covered the year ending March 2023, found almost 35% of children asked had experienced in-person bullying, while 19.1% said they had been bullied online.

Girls were more likely to experience online bullying, with 22.5% reporting it compared to 16% of boys, the figures showed. More than one in 10 of those who said they experienced it had received a nasty message about themselves, while 9.6% had been called names, sworn at or insulted.