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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

My Family's Digital Toolkit

Health & Fitness Apps: A Guide for Parents

What Parents & Educators Need to Know about TikTok

Careers & Apprenticeship Information

Safeguarding: BeReal

Online Safety Help Videos

Keeping safe online :: a guide for parents & teachers

Common Sense Media – Game Reviews

See also...

Friends of Hartismere School

Get Classroom email summaries (for guardians)

Parents Evening :: Year 13

Parents Evening :: Year 10

Application for Remission from Charges/School Uniform Support

School Uniform

Help & Support

Parents Evening :: Year 12

Hartismail - emails and letters home

Term dates

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Prevent - Radicalisation and Extremism

Advice about improving your sleep

Child to parent abuse

NHS 111 mental health support

Harmful Sexual Behaviour

E-Safety

Cyberbullying Advice

County lines

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

Early Help

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March 2026 Year 11 Mocks

Parents Evening :: Year 11

Summer 2026 Examinations

Attack the Block Peep Hole

9S4 Chemistry Paper Chromatography 2

Hartismere Staff Sketchbook Club Exhibition

Chicago Teen edition - tickets available soon

8S1 Chemistry Thermal Decomposition

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Safeguarding Mental Health Social Media Guide Findmykids List Work Experience Chat Bot Learning at Home Alamanc Internet PTA Art Exhibition Staff Celebrity Remote Cover ZEN Sketchbook Film Studies

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