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As health professionals, we see first-hand the impacts of children’s addictive screen use and access to harmful content online. Join us in our call to instigate real and urgent change.
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Join our call for an urgent health briefing
Health Professionals for Safer Screens have co-ordinated a letter to the UK Chief Medical Officers regarding their 2019 commentary to share that we believe it is outdated and requires an urgent review.
The key issues
As clinicians, we witness these harmful effects daily in our clinics, and academics are now establishing causal connections. Smartphones, screens and social media usage impact every part of our children’s lives from their early cognitive development through to their physical development – obesity, eyesight, eating disorders to their social development, mental health and academic attainment.
This is a disaster for our children and for our society. Find out more below:
52% of the young people that spend most of their free time on their smartphone, wish they could spend less time on their phone
1.9 million children with speech and language challenges in the UK – an increase of 27% in the past 2 years
Nearly half (47%) of parents say they have had a disagreement with their child over screen time in the last few weeks
OUR LATEST RESOURCES
all resourcesProfessor Caroline Fitzpatrick Ph D – Digital Child Lab, Université de Sherbrooke
Professor Caroline Fitzpatrick runs the Digital Child Lab in Quebec. She is Canada Research Chair in Digital Media Use by Children and Its Implications for Promoting Togetherness: An Ecosystemic Approach, Professor, Department of Preschool and Elementary Education, Université de Sherbrooke. Here she shares her research insight into screens. She covers the impact on young children…
Teaching ResourcesWell Being and Digital – a presentation for Y3-Y6
A presentation suitable for primary children.
Download PDFJeremy Alford – ‘The Impact of Social Media and Screen Time on Eating Disorders’
Jeremy Alford (PhD) Psychologist specialising in Eating Disorders, President of MEED, NCFED Senior Lecturer gives a talk for Health Professionals.