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...
The ABC online safety checklist
Health & Fitness Apps: A Guide for Parents
Common Sense Media – Game Reviews
Youtube - Supervised Experience
See also...
Bullying and child on child abuse
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Child Criminal Exploitation (CCE) and Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE)
Explore...
Coping with exam pressure - a guide for students
TwitBook - Can you spot the problems with this profile page?
New...
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