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Safeguarding: Social Media & Mental Health

Social Media is often scrutinised as having a negative impact on children’s mental health. Children and young people are now growing up in a technology dominated world, and social media plays a major role in their social lives. This balanced guide focuses at both the positive and negative impacts that social media can bring to young people and their mental health.

https://nationalonlinesafety.com/hub/view/guide/social-media-mental-health-the-positive-and-negative-impacts 

In this section...

Parent and carers guide to live streaming

AI and nude images

Safeguarding: Instagram

My Family's Digital Toolkit

Common Sense Media – Game Reviews

What Parents & Educators Need to Know about TikTok

Managing In-Game Spending

Youtube - Supervised Experience

Fake Celebrity Chatbots - Harmful Content

What is Character AI? What parents need to know

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Early Help

Bullying and child on child abuse

TwitBook - Can you spot the problems with this profile page?

Prevent - Radicalisation and Extremism

Child to parent abuse

Find My Kids App

Wellbeing

County lines

Advice about improving your sleep

Safeguarding

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Parking - Hartismere Hospital

Open afternoons

LAMDA Performance and public speaking exams 2026-2027

Stranger Things, The First Shadow. The Phoenix Theatre, Friday 11th September.

Change of Head of Year 7

Summer 2026 Examinations

April 2026 Year 10 Mocks

June 2026 Year 12 Mocks

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Safeguarding Mental Health Social Media Guide Learning Support Findmykids GCSE Drama Videos Afternoon Head Of Year Mocks Year 7 Parentpay Drugs Safety Coronavirus Emergency Learning at Home Test Ofcom

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