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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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My Family's Digital Toolkit

Keeping safe online :: a guide for parents & teachers

Safeguarding: X

What Parents & Educators Need to Know about TikTok

Health & Fitness Apps: A Guide for Parents

Careers & Apprenticeship Information

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

Common Sense Media – Game Reviews

Top 15 most dangerous apps for children

The ABC online safety checklist

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Domestic Violence

Find My Kids App

Out of hours information

Do you want to tell us anything?

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

Child to parent abuse

Harmful Sexual Behaviour

Prevent - Radicalisation and Extremism

County lines

Bullying and child on child abuse

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Coping with exam pressure - a guide for students

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

NHS 111 mental health support

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School Policies

Community news: Davey Tennis

Cover Supervisor with art specialism

Cover Supervisor with PE specialism

STARLIGHT EXPRESS, London. Thursday 2nd October.

Year 7 tutors/parents evening

Hartismere High School 1999

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