Do Apple have any plans to include Parental controls within Safari

I was wondering if Apple have any plans to include parental controls withing Safari on the iPad going forward.
It would be particularly useful if you could create a whitelist of websites that could be accessed without a PIN, and then beyond that you would need to enter your PIN to get to any websites not on the white list.
So many kids games have click through's to YouTube videos, and they access YouTube via Safari rather than using the YouTube app so disabling the YouTube app doesn't help, and disabling Safari is overkill.
Anyone heard anything?
Cheers,
Jocky

Thanks OM. For what it's worth my son is only 5 so he's not really looking for mischief online quite yet - let alone hack past barriers I put up (I'm an IT security professional so he nights find he has a bigger challenge against his Dad than most kids when he gets a bit older / more inquisitive anyway ;)) . It's more to stop game click-throughs onto YouTube where he could suddenly find himself seeing something he can't 'unsee'.
I've just disabled Safari for now and left my thoughts and suggestions with Apple via their feedback page :)
Cheers,
Jocky

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