Julie Inman Grant leads the world’s first regulatory agency designed to keep people safe online, after an influential career working with US Congress, as well as in senior positions at Silicon Valley giants Microsoft and Twitter. But she’s also just a mum, albeit one who understands better than most the pressures parents face in keeping their kids out of harm’s way online.

Inman Grant speaks with senior writer Konrad Marshall about the kind of disturbing content that comes through her office; what parents should and should not do to help their kids navigate the online world; and how she deals with all this in her own family dynamics.