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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...

Safeguarding: Instagram

Common Sense Media – Game Reviews

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

What Parents & Educators Need to Know about TikTok

What is Character AI? What parents need to know

The ABC online safety checklist

Four months on: is Roblox any safer?

Careers & Apprenticeship Information

My Family's Digital Toolkit

Safeguarding: X

See also...

Help & Support

Parents Evening :: Year 13

Coping with exam pressure - a guide for students

Absence Request Form

Get Classroom email summaries (for guardians)

Parents

Parents Evening :: Year 7

Parents Evening :: Year 10

Parents Evening :: Year 11

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Cyberbullying Advice

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

Wellbeing

Domestic Violence

Bullying and child on child abuse

Safeguarding

County lines

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

Advice about improving your sleep

Prevent - Radicalisation and Extremism

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E-Safety

April 2026 Year 10 Mocks

Waveney Valley Transport

Summer 2026 Examinations

June 2026 Year 12 Mocks

New Wolsey Youth Theatre applications are now open for September 2026

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