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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...

How Ofcom is helping children to be safer online – a guide for parents

Online Safety Help Videos

Safeguarding: Instagram

Four months on: is Roblox any safer?

My Family's Digital Toolkit

What Parents & Educators Need to Know about TikTok

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

AI and nude images

Parent and carers guide to live streaming

What is Character AI? What parents need to know

See also...

Parents Evening :: Year 8

Parents

Sport and PE

Get Classroom email summaries (for guardians)

Change of Head of Year 7

Hartismail - emails and letters home

Forms

Year 7 tutors/parents evening

Parents collecting pupils from school

Coping with exam pressure - a guide for students

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Safeguarding

County lines

Child to parent abuse

NHS 111 mental health support

Early Help

Out of hours information

Do you want to tell us anything?

Cyberbullying Advice

Bullying and child on child abuse

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

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Stranger Things, The First Shadow. The Phoenix Theatre, Friday 11th September.

Summer 2026 Examinations

April 2026 Year 10 Mocks

Hartismere Family Data Protection Policy and Privacy Notice

Hartismere School & Sixth Form College

E-Safety

Increase in Fees for Instrumental/Vocal lessons from September 2026

June 2026 Year 12 Mocks

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