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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 

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Top 15 most dangerous apps for children

Youtube - Supervised Experience

What is Character AI? What parents need to know

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

The ABC online safety checklist

Parent and carers guide to live streaming

Safeguarding: Instagram

Keeping safe online :: a guide for parents & teachers

Safeguarding: X

Health & Fitness Apps: A Guide for Parents

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SMS Text School Notifications

Find My Kids App

Help & Support

Hartismail - emails and letters home

Parents Evening :: Year 11

Newsletters 2023-2024

Parents Evening :: Year 8

Common Sense Media – Game Reviews

Get Classroom email summaries (for guardians)

Absence Request Form

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Prevent - Radicalisation and Extremism

County lines

Do you want to tell us anything?

Child Criminal Exploitation (CCE) and Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE)

Harmful Sexual Behaviour

E-Safety

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

Child to parent abuse

Out of hours information

Safeguarding

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Film post-production explained

Computer Science

Admissions and Application Forms :: Main School and Sixth Form

Sixth Form Course Information

Joint letter from Ofqual and UCAS to students, summer 2025

Sixth Form Applications

Expressionism

Pupil Premium Strategy Statement

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