
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.

In this section...
The ABC online safety checklist
Health & Fitness Apps: A Guide for Parents
Youtube - Supervised Experience
Top 15 most dangerous apps for children
What is Character AI? What parents need to know
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)
Hartismail - emails and letters home
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TwitBook - Can you spot the problems with this profile page?
Prevent - Radicalisation and Extremism
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Child Criminal Exploitation (CCE) and Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE)
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