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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

My Family's Digital Toolkit

What Parents & Educators Need to Know about TikTok

Safeguarding: BeReal

The ABC online safety checklist

Parent and carers guide to live streaming

What is Character AI? What parents need to know

Online safety newsletters

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

Youtube - Supervised Experience

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Help & Support

Get Classroom email summaries (for guardians)

Year 9 Options process for 2025

Forms

Parents

Parents Evening :: Year 11

Newsletters 2023-2024

Parents Evening :: Year 7

@Home

Parents Evening :: Year 9

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Early Help

E-Safety

Wellbeing

Safeguarding

Harmful Sexual Behaviour

County lines

Domestic Violence

Advice about improving your sleep

Bullying and child on child abuse

Child to parent abuse

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I Belong: encouraging girls into computer science programme

5 Brilliant Moments in Patterns

Hartismere Art & Photography Exhibition 2025

Sixth Form Course Information

Computer Science

Pan's Labyrinth - The Pale Man article

Film post-production explained

Pupil Premium Strategy Statement

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