A survey of 2,700 people up to the age of 25 who had struggled with mental health issues found that less than 1 in 10 (9 per cent) felt it was easy to get the support they needed.
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iNews
28 Mar 2018
Inquiry into the Impact of Social Media and Screen Time on kids health
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Internet Matters
28 Mar 2018
The NSPCC reports that thousands of young people across the country seek help after being sexually abused by other children. They say young people are struggling to understand what has happened to them and some teachers need more help on how to respond
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On The Wight
28 Mar 2018
PERPETRATORS of online child sexual abuse are to be targeted by police in a new hard-hitting campaign.
The crackdown will be launched tomorrow with the warning that offenders are “just one click away from losing everything”.
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The National
27 Mar 2018
As reliance on digital learning tools increases, parents are becoming concerned about how poor broadband service affects their children's education
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Independent
27 Mar 2018
A headteacher and CEO have been suspended from schools around Colchester, as the town's MP highlighted "concerns over bullying".
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Essex Live
27 Mar 2018
Millions of people all over the world are experiencing mental health problems. And though the causes vary, we know that half of all these illnesses will have started in childhood or the teenage years.
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The Conversation
26 Mar 2018
The 43-year-old used Skype to contact strangers online using his fake profiles, persuading them to send him photographs and perform sexual acts.
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Essex Live
23 Mar 2018
Students must learn the power of language – both for good and for evil, writes one celebrated educationist.
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TES
22 Mar 2018
Healthcare professionals have recently raised concerns that this overuse of touchscreens and tablets is preventing children from developing the most basic skills such as how to write.
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CLNews
21 Mar 2018
Race-based conflicts and prejudices are common. The persistence of such attitudes has led some to ask whether we are naturally inclined to like those who are like us and dislike those who are different.
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The Conversation
21 Mar 2018
Teenage girls are by far the highest users of social media, and those who are using it for more than an hour a day are also at the highest risk of developing well-being problems in later teen years.
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The Conversation
20 Mar 2018
We cannot allow the government to add rules about pupil use of social media to teachers' never-ending to-list, tackling the negative side effects must be a joint effort involving parents, pupils and providers, writes Tes' mental health columnist, Natasha Devon
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TES
20 Mar 2018
Data from 41 UK police forces found 5,349 offences with a racial, religious or faith-based element where the target was under 18 in 2016/17.
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Wessex FM
20 Mar 2018
A TEENAGER who was sexually abused by a 40-year-old man she met on the internet has told her story in a video.
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Bicester Advertiser
19 Mar 2018
Hackers see teachers and parents as a “soft target” since they are often ill-equipped to deal with cyber thefts, while sensitive data held by schools - such as children’s medical records - are lucrative on the dark web.
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The Telegraph
19 Mar 2018
The new interactive BBC iReporter game - aimed at youngsters aged 11 to 18 - gives you the chance to take on the role of a journalist in the BBC newsroom.
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BBC
16 Mar 2018
Children are using fake Instagram accounts, called "finstas", to bully and destroy the reputations of their peers, the eSafety Commissioner says.
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ABC News (Aus)
16 Mar 2018
Youngsters are "falling into the trap" of both getting themselves into trouble with the police for sharing images of each other and becoming victims of perverts by sending the images in the first place.
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Derby Telegraph
15 Mar 2018
63%, of the young people who took part said that they would not tell their parents if they were experiencing online bullying.
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The Galleon
13 Mar 2018