Britain's Children's Commissioner Dame Rachel de Souza has told LBC that she backs a UK ban on under-16s using social media.

Sir Martyn Oliver used his annual report to state the influence of social media 'clearly plays a part' in driving disruptive ...

In today’s digital world, social media plays an important role in communication, learning, and entertainment. While adults ...

DRIVING THOUGHTSChildren today are growing up online. A UNICEF study found that 60 percent of Filipino children aged 10 to 17 are active internet users, ...

There may be a link between social media use during early adolescence and lower cognitive performance, a new study suggests. The study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, or ...

The writer of the Netflix drama Adolescence has suggested that children should be denied access to social media to protect them from toxic ideas online. Jack Thorne, together with actor Stephen Graham ...

young girl studying and listening to music on the laptop sitting on the floor of the living room at home Juliana Belo Gutierrez/iStockphoto / Getty Images/iStockphoto Preteens using increasing amounts ...

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Too many pupils now 'out of step' with school life, says Ofsted chief. Children’s behaviour in school is back in the ...

SOCIAL media has been blamed by the schools’ inspector for a surge in classroom bad behaviour after “chipping away” at kids’ brains. Almost a million pupils were excluded last year in a staggering ...

Australia passes nationwide social media ban for under-16sBan sparked by state leader's quest after wife urged him to actRupert Murdoch's News Corp media campaign backed banSurvey shows 77pc of ...