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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...

What is Character AI? What parents need to know

Safeguarding: BeReal

Managing In-Game Spending

New online safety priorities for Ofcom and effects of social media on children

Safeguarding: Instagram

Parent and carers guide to live streaming

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

Top 15 most dangerous apps for children

My Family's Digital Toolkit

Online Safety Help Videos

See also...

Parent's Evenings

SMS Text School Notifications

Parents Evening :: Year 12

Find My Kids App

Sport and PE

School Uniform

Year 7 tutors/parents evening

Hartismail - emails and letters home

Parents Evening :: Year 8

Parents collecting pupils from school

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Prevent - Radicalisation and Extremism

Child to parent abuse

Out of hours information

NHS 111 mental health support

Bullying and child on child abuse

Early Help

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

Domestic Violence

Wellbeing

Advice about improving your sleep

New...

E-Safety

Summer 2026 Examinations

Open afternoons

April 2026 Year 10 Mocks

Dracula podcast

Change of Head of Year 9

Hartismere School & Sixth Form College

Vacancies

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Safeguarding Mental Health Social Media Guide Staff Handbook Hartismail Revision Head Of Year School Newsletters Horror Staff Information Internet Safety Mocks GCSE Internet Routines AI Forms Sexual Behaviour Google

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