Childline launches new campaign to support youth mental health

Childline has launched a new campaign to support positive youth mental health and encourage device-free time. The free and confidential helpline for children said that mental health concerns accounted for more than half of all counselling sessions they delivered to children and young people last year. They delivered almost 83,000 counselling sessions on the...

NSPCC shares parent and child views on smartphones

The NSPCC has asked parents and young people how they feel about the impact of smartphones and social media on child safety and wellbeing. Young people told the NSPCC that they feel trying to keep them away from smartphones and social media was unrealistic in an online world, and that having a phone to...