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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

Health & Fitness Apps: A Guide for Parents

What is Character AI? What parents need to know

Parent and carers guide to live streaming

Keeping safe online :: a guide for parents & teachers

The ABC online safety checklist

Safeguarding: BeReal

Online safety newsletters

Youtube - Supervised Experience

Safeguarding: X

See also...

SMS Text School Notifications

Parents Evening :: Year 13

Hartismail - emails and letters home

Parents Evening :: Year 8

Newsletters 2023-2024

Parents

Get Classroom email summaries (for guardians)

Year 9 Options process for 2025

Parents Evening :: Year 12

Forms

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Prevent - Radicalisation and Extremism

E-Safety

County lines

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

NHS 111 mental health support

Do you want to tell us anything?

Bullying and child on child abuse

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

Wellbeing

Advice about improving your sleep

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Pan's Labyrinth - The Pale Man article

I Belong: encouraging girls into computer science programme

Local Governing Body Information

Hartismere Art & Photography Exhibition 2025

Pupil Premium Strategy Statement

What happens to your examination script?

5 Brilliant Moments in Patterns

Examination Rules, Guidance and Support

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Safeguarding Mental Health Social Media Guide Findmykids ZEN Games Test Productions Hartismail Local Governing Body notifications Instagram Classroom Esafety Sexual Behaviour Parent Pay YOUNG Wellbeing Twitter

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