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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...

Youtube - Supervised Experience

Safeguarding: BeReal

Top 15 most dangerous apps for children

Health & Fitness Apps: A Guide for Parents

My Family's Digital Toolkit

Safeguarding: X

Four months on: is Roblox any safer?

Safeguarding: Instagram

Fake Celebrity Chatbots - Harmful Content

How Ofcom is helping children to be safer online – a guide for parents

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Advice about improving your sleep

Prevent - Radicalisation and Extremism

Coping with exam pressure - a guide for students

Harmful Sexual Behaviour

Safeguarding

E-Safety

Out of hours information

Wellbeing

Child Criminal Exploitation (CCE) and Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE)

County lines

New...

Year 9 Options Evening

Summer 2026 Examinations

April 2026 Year 10 Mocks

Staff Sketchbook Club 2025-26 April - July

Waveney Valley Transport

IT, COMMUNICATIONS AND AUDIOVISUAL TECHNICIAN

Cover Supervisor

Dracula podcast

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Safeguarding Mental Health Social Media Guide Test Instagram Hartismail YouTube Sketchbook College Dracula Parent Holiday Travel Film Studies Bereal Letters Sexual Behaviour Horror Online

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