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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...

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

Health & Fitness Apps: A Guide for Parents

What is Character AI? What parents need to know

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

Safeguarding: Instagram

AI and nude images

Safeguarding: X

My Family's Digital Toolkit

Four months on: is Roblox any safer?

The ABC online safety checklist

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