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.
In this section...
What Parents & Educators Need to Know about TikTok
Common Sense Media – Game Reviews
Fake Celebrity Chatbots - Harmful Content
How Ofcom is helping children to be safer online – a guide for parents
Health & Fitness Apps: A Guide for Parents
What is Character AI? What parents need to know
New online safety priorities for Ofcom and effects of social media on children
See also...
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Bullying and child on child abuse
Child Criminal Exploitation (CCE) and Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE)
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Friends of Hartismere - Car Boot Sale
Parent & Carer Perception Survey
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