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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...

The ABC online safety checklist

AI and nude images

Safeguarding: BeReal

Youtube - Supervised Experience

Four months on: is Roblox any safer?

Managing In-Game Spending

Safeguarding: Instagram

What Parents & Educators Need to Know about TikTok

Fake Celebrity Chatbots - Harmful Content

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

See also...

Application for Remission from Charges/School Uniform Support

School Uniform

Parents Evening :: Year 13

SMS Text School Notifications

Year 7 tutors/parents evening

Absence Request Form

Sport and PE

@Home

Forms

Parents Evening :: Year 8

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Safeguarding

Domestic Violence

Early Help

E-Safety

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

NHS 111 mental health support

Harmful Sexual Behaviour

Out of hours information

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

Advice about improving your sleep

New...

Head of Department Psychology & Sociology

Summer 2026 Examinations

Meshes of the Afternoon - Maya Deren (1943)

Young Performers Theatre Workshops - For 12-18's

Our curriculum

Parents Evening :: Year 9

March 2026 Year 11 Mocks

Artist in Residence for 2026

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