Education Policy Institute: Social Media and Children's Health Report

The Education Policy Institute (EPI) have shared a report on their website that examines how social media impacts on mental wellbeing. 

Dawn Jotham, our Product Development Lead for Education is an experienced Pastoral Care Lead. She made this comment about the report:

"These are interesting findings, but not really surprising. If children are having smart phones  at 12, blocking systems for parents are not going to work, educating, listening and focusing on the benefits is  the way forward.

"I did part of my Master’s thesis on the digital narrative with 14-18 years, and what I found time and again is that young people are more aware of what is going on than I would ever have given them credit for."

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