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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...

Careers & Apprenticeship Information

Keeping safe online :: a guide for parents & teachers

Parent and carers guide to live streaming

What Parents & Educators Need to Know about TikTok

Managing In-Game Spending

Four months on: is Roblox any safer?

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

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

Health & Fitness Apps: A Guide for Parents

My Family's Digital Toolkit

See also...

Application for Remission from Charges/School Uniform Support

Change of Head of Year 7

Parent's Evenings

Parents collecting pupils from school

School Transport Information

Get Classroom email summaries (for guardians)

Parents Evening :: Year 7

Forms

Parents

Find My Kids App

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Cyberbullying Advice

Advice about improving your sleep

Domestic Violence

Out of hours information

Prevent - Radicalisation and Extremism

County lines

Early Help

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

Child to parent abuse

Wellbeing

New...

Summer 2026 Examinations

Hartismere School & Sixth Form College

Hartismere Family Data Protection Policy and Privacy Notice

April 2026 Year 10 Mocks

Increase in Fees for Instrumental/Vocal lessons from September 2026

Hartismere Family :: Policy Documents

Print Exhibition at Wingfield Barns

June 2026 Year 12 Mocks

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