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CyberSafeKids
Minister for Education urged to ban use of phones as learning tools in classrooms
Total ban on ownership of smartphones for under-13s ‘fraught with difficulty’, Catherine Martin says
Almost a quarter of six year olds have their own smartphone, survey finds
Majority of parents concerned about online safety of their children, CyberSafeKids finds
Parents and children urged to take 24-hour ‘cyberbreak’ from 5pm today
Smartphone breaks ‘vital’ for mental health, says therapist, as survey shows two-thirds of students feel they spend too much time online
Children’s access to smartphones: ‘many sleep with them under their pillows’
Schools are increasingly enlisting parents in a battle to minimise children’s exposure to social media
Quarter of children aged 8 to 12 experienced cyberbullying in the last year, report finds
New report finds that rate of cyberbullying rises in secondary school, and girls more likely to be victimised than boys
Breda O’Brien: When was the last time you saw children playing outside unsupervised?
Children have more autonomy about what they eat or wear, but less independence in real terms
Children and smartphones: How to protect and guide them from bullying, phishing and grooming
How can parents best guide their children and keep them safe from many different types of harm when the threat is right in front of them in their own home?
‘You can spot the children who read books and aren’t on screens’: Waterford schools plan no-smartphone code for pupils
Primary schools say move prompted by pupils’ shorter attention spans and rising anxiety levels
Greystones parents agree to ‘no smartphone’ code for children until second level
Move across eight schools follows rising concern about anxiety levels among pupils and early exposure to adult material online
There’s no such thing as a digital native
Technology is changing too rapidly for us to assume that the next generation will fully understand it
Keeping kids safe online is mostly common sense and communication
There are simple ways to monitor access and interactions
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