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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...

Online Safety Help Videos

Common Sense Media – Game Reviews

Safeguarding: X

Managing In-Game Spending

What Parents & Educators Need to Know about TikTok

Safeguarding: BeReal

Youtube - Supervised Experience

AI and nude images

Keeping safe online :: a guide for parents & teachers

What is Character AI? What parents need to know

See also...

Parents Evening :: Year 8

Parents Evening :: Year 12

Parent's Evenings

Parents

Get Classroom email summaries (for guardians)

Hartismail - emails and letters home

Application for Remission from Charges/School Uniform Support

Year 7 tutors/parents evening

Forms

Sport and PE

Explore...

Cyberbullying Advice

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

Wellbeing

Child to parent abuse

Safeguarding

Early Help

Do you want to tell us anything?

Domestic Violence

Out of hours information

Harmful Sexual Behaviour

New...

Summer 2026 Examinations

Examination Arrangements: Summer 2026

E-Safety

Parents collecting pupils from school

CABARET THE MUSICAL. London. Y9-13. Weds 15th April 2026- Only a few places left

Admissions and Application Forms :: Main School and Sixth Form

School Policies

April 2026 Year 10 Mocks

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