The Academy of Medical Royal Colleges, representing 23 medical colleges, has declared the impact of harmful online content and excessive screen use on children a public health emergency.

And when Times Radio asked Dr Becky Foljambe from Health Professionals for Safer Screens whether this was really a social issue rather than a health one, her answer was unequivocal:

“I don’t know if you could call it a social issue when it’s arriving on the doorstep of all these clinical departments… when it’s showing up in A&E, in clinics, this is a health issue.”