Speaker carrying an established child-design policy model into an AI-governance forum

Leanda Barrington-Leach

Leanda Barrington-Leach was identified as 5Rights Foundation's executive director at the Athens Roundtable held in London on 4 December 2025. The organizer's recap attributes to her an argument for using the UK Age Appropriate Design Code as a model for AI safety by design.

The substantive bridge

Page 23 of the event recap describes Barrington-Leach's child-rights safeguards and her use of the UK code as an AI design model. The same page attributes a Greek kids-wallet example to a different speaker, Ambassador George Pagoulatos. That distinction preserves who proposed what: the retained account supports her design-code argument, not attribution of the wallet proposal or a universal identification demand to her.

What the records show

Leanda Barrington-Leach5Rights Foundation

identified as executive director at event

4December2025; historical event role

identified as executive director at event

Leanda Barrington-LeachUK Age Appropriate Design Code

advocated as model for AI safety by design

4December2025; PDFp23

Specific policy-model transmission at Athens. Does not establish mandatory identity checking, an enacted rule or shared command.

Leanda Barrington-LeachAthens Roundtable — London, 4 December 2025

presented child-rights AI safeguards

4December2025

Event recap p23 identifies speaker and account of remarks; not independently watched video.

From the investigation

Institutional channels and a substantive age-policy bridge

Page23 reports 5Rights executive director Leanda Barrington-Leach advocating the UK's Age Appropriate Design Code as a model for AI safety by design. This is a specific policy model being carried into the AI-governance forum. The same page separately attributes Greece's kids-wallet age-verification example to Ambassador George Pagoulatos. Do not attribute his example to Leanda, infer that the Global Call demands it, or say age verification was absent from the event. Video links were extracted but the video was not watched; the organizer's recap remains the source of the account.

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