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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 

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The ABC online safety checklist

Safeguarding: BeReal

Health & Fitness Apps: A Guide for Parents

Youtube - Supervised Experience

Safeguarding: Instagram

Top 15 most dangerous apps for children

What is Character AI? What parents need to know

Online Safety Help Videos

Keeping safe online :: a guide for parents & teachers

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

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Get Classroom email summaries (for guardians)

@Home

Hartismail - emails and letters home

Parents Evening :: Year 7

Year 9 Options process for 2025

Find My Kids App

Help & Support

Parents

Parent's Evenings

Parents Evening :: Year 13

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Domestic Violence

Safeguarding

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

Prevent - Radicalisation and Extremism

Out of hours information

Do you want to tell us anything?

Wellbeing

E-Safety

NHS 111 mental health support

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

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Community news: Davey Tennis

STARLIGHT EXPRESS, London. Thursday 2nd October.

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Autumn Term Sports Clubs

Cover Supervisor

Key Stage 3 practical sessions information - updated for September 2025

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