SAFE BY DESIGN · EPISODE 24

One Family, One Safety Plan

Nani said yes, Dev said maybe and Riya said ask first. Nobody was wrong. They just weren't working from the same page.

Arjun was spending the weekend at Nani's, and by Saturday evening the house was so quiet that Riya and Dev had run out of things to say about it. They were on the sofa, half-watching a film, when the family group chat lit up.

It was Nani, delighted. Arjun had found two lovely new games, she wrote, and she had said yes, because they looked harmless. Riya typed back that it sounded lovely, and asked whether he had checked before downloading.

The answer came quickly. He asked me. Was I meant to ask you?

Riya looked at Dev. “Was she?”

Neither of them knew. Between the two of them, Nani and Tara's mum, the family had plenty of rules. What it didn't have was one set of them, written down anywhere a grown-up or a child could find it.