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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...

Safeguarding: BeReal

Common Sense Media – Game Reviews

Top 15 most dangerous apps for children

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

Safeguarding: X

Fake Celebrity Chatbots - Harmful Content

Safeguarding: Instagram

AI and nude images

Youtube - Supervised Experience

Four months on: is Roblox any safer?

See also...

Newsletters 2023-2024

Parents Evening :: Year 11

Absence Request Form

Hartismail - emails and letters home

Application for Remission from Charges/School Uniform Support

Forms

Parents Evening :: Year 8

@Home

Coping with exam pressure - a guide for students

Parent's Evenings

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Prevent - Radicalisation and Extremism

Domestic Violence

Wellbeing

Safeguarding

E-Safety

NHS 111 mental health support

Child to parent abuse

Out of hours information

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

Cyberbullying Advice

New...

Dracula podcast

IT, COMMUNICATIONS AND AUDIOVISUAL TECHNICIAN

April 2026 Year 10 Mocks

Year 9 Options Evening

Waveney Valley Transport

Cover Supervisor

Staff Sketchbook Club 2025-26 April - July

Summer 2026 Examinations

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Safeguarding Mental Health Social Media Guide Pupil Services Holiday My Hartismere Text Mocks Term Dates Events Physical Education Safety Friends Of Hartisemere Sketchbook Twitter @Home Working Transport GCSE

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