There is a particular kind of calm that comes from opening an app and seeing a small blue dot exactly where it should be. School. A friend’s house. The train home. The dot is there, so they are there, and you can put your phone back in your pocket and get on with your evening. […]
Is facial recognition safe? It is a fair question to be asking this summer. In recent weeks the police have pushed live facial recognition further into British city centres, including central London. A newer approach lets an officer scan a face from a phone in the street. The Government has been consulting on a legal […]
We want to start this month with a question rather than an answer. It is one we have not been able to put down, and over the next few weeks we are going to try to earn the right to answer it properly. Here it is. If your child needed you this afternoon, really needed […]
When a school introduces a mobile phone policy, the costs that get signed off are the obvious ones. Pouches, lockable wallets, lockers, and a line in the budget for replacing them each year. Those costs are planned, approved and understood. The cost that never makes it into the business case is the one that arrives […]
Summer is the season of departure lounges, motorway service stations and that first proper exhale when the holiday finally begins. It is also the time of year when families are most spread out, most reliant on a single phone, and most likely to hit the small problems that turn a relaxed trip into a stressful […]
The First Phone Debate: When Should You Get Your Child a Phone? Few decisions in modern parenting are as quietly stressful as the first phone. Too early and you have signed your child up to all the harms of the internet before they can navigate any of them. Too late and they are the only […]
Most of the national conversation about online safety still focuses on social media. That is understandable, since it is the area with the longest track record of harm and the clearest evidence base. But quietly, something else has been happening. AI chatbots have moved from novelty to daily companion for a meaningful number of young […]
For most school leaders, the phone question is no longer whether. It is how. From 29 June 2026, Section 36 of the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Act 2026 gives the Department for Education’s mobile phone guidance the force of law. The default expectation is clear: schools should be mobile phone free environments, with anything else […]
Facial recognition has been having a difficult year in the UK news. Police use of live facial recognition in city centres has been challenged by civil liberties groups. High street retailers using the technology to identify suspected shoplifters have faced criticism over accuracy. The EU’s AI Act has set new rules on biometric systems. The conversation, […]
Child Safety Week is here again, running from Monday 1 June to Sunday 7 June 2026, and this year’s theme from the Child Accident Prevention Trust is one of the most useful the campaign has ever chosen. Making Prevention Possible is built on a simple, refreshing idea. Most child safety advice fails not because parents […]
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