Hartismere School

Est. 1451. An outstanding coeducational secondary school & sixth form college and England's first academy

Home Login

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

Safeguarding: BeReal

Online Safety Help Videos

Careers & Apprenticeship Information

What Parents & Educators Need to Know about TikTok

Safeguarding: Instagram

Safeguarding: X

Health & Fitness Apps: A Guide for Parents

Youtube - Supervised Experience

Top 15 most dangerous apps for children

See also...

Do you want to tell us anything?

Domestic Violence

Advice about improving your sleep

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

Common Sense Media – Game Reviews

E-Safety

Wellbeing

County lines

Child to parent abuse

Prevent - Radicalisation and Extremism

Explore...

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

NHS 111 mental health support

New...

School Policies

Teacher of Health & Social Care

Useful Careers Websites

Parents Evening :: Year 8

Teacher of Sociology

Admissions and Application Forms :: Main School and Sixth Form

Our curriculum

Subject Lead - Health & Social Care

Discover...

Safeguarding Mental Health Social Media Guide Uniform Learning at Home Coronavirus Drugs Fitness College Online Sociology Admissions Emergency YouTube Videos Computer Bereal Curriculum Computer Science

Uh-oh - we were unable to load our website on your browser so we're showing you a plain HTML version.

We use many features found in modern browsers and regrettably yours seems incompatible.

However this legacy version contains (very, very nearly) all the same content. Each page is rendered on our server and doesn't rely on any browser features except the odd font. It doesn't even need Javascript or fancy CSS. It's like being in 1995!

Your browser is reporting itself to us as CCBot/2.0 (https://commoncrawl.org/faq/). Please consider updating your browser to make the most of our website.

If you would like to try our proper website again - you can do so here...