“It feels a bit off-balance,” said Rogowski, who went on to point out that children already have many other damaging freedoms online where they are more exposed to danger and not protected.

Hey! The internet can abuse children, so I should be able to without anybody watching me!

For Rogowski, though, the efforts now made in Britain are in danger of inhibiting creativity. His scenes in Bird involve several small children and teenagers who are depicted in situations of social neglect and even imminent harm.

If you have to actually neglect and harm your actors to get a depiction of them being neglected and harmed, you're a very bad film maker who shouldn't be allowed to have actors who aren't fully adult aged working for you.

Whybrew believes the issue is to achieve greater compliance with the laws and rules that are already in place. She added that regulation is hard to impose in an industry that relies on short-term contracts and where “a culture of fear” can lead workers to accept longer hours than they should and, in extreme cases, to submit to other forms of bad treatment or abuse.

Money quote of the article.