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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...

My Family's Digital Toolkit

Fake Celebrity Chatbots - Harmful Content

AI and nude images

Safeguarding: BeReal

Four months on: is Roblox any safer?

Managing In-Game Spending

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

What Parents & Educators Need to Know about TikTok

Safeguarding: Instagram

Safeguarding: X

See also...

Coping with exam pressure - a guide for students

Parents Evening :: Year 12

Application for Remission from Charges/School Uniform Support

Hartismail - emails and letters home

Change of Head of Year 9

Get Classroom email summaries (for guardians)

Friends of Hartismere School

Parent & Carer Perception Survey

Parents Evening :: Year 8

Year 7 tutors/parents evening

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Advice about improving your sleep

Bullying and child on child abuse

Out of hours information

Cyberbullying Advice

Harmful Sexual Behaviour

Safeguarding

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

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

Child to parent abuse

County lines

New...

Waveney Valley Transport

Hartismere School & Sixth Form College

April 2026 Year 10 Mocks

Dracula podcast

E-Safety

Summer 2026 Examinations

Vacancies

Open afternoons

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