BBC Four & CBBC to close

[Andrew]

In all of this I feel sorry for the kids of the parents on Universal Credit who don’t have a phone or internet access and use the free kids channels, they lose out most from this.

On paper this is a good argument for a children's strand on one of the remaining linear channels.  However, 97% of the UK has internet access so I'm not sure it really stands up once you dive into the figures.  Also BT and Virgin offer heavily discounted broadband for those on Universal Credit.

And I bet the vast majority of that 3% are older people in their 80s+ who have no interest in getting the Internet rather than people with kids