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 […]
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 […]
Open the app store and search for family safety, and you will find the same idea over and over: a map, a moving dot, and the reassurance of knowing where your people are. Location tracking has become one of the most common ways families look out for one another. And it is easy to see […]
Every headteacher who has rolled out a phone free policy has heard the same question, usually within the first parents’ evening of the new term. “If my child needs me during the day, how will they reach me?” It is a fair question. And how a school answers it can make or break the policy. […]
Going phone free is the easy part. Keeping it phone free is where the real work begins. The true cost of phone free schools is not the policy itself. It is everything that happens after the phones go away. Most schools that adopt a phone free policy do so with the right intentions and the […]
There is a clear answer to why every school is going phone free, and from 29 June 2026 it is backed by law. In the last two years, something has shifted in UK education. From small primary schools to the country’s largest Multi Academy Trusts, leaders are reaching the same conclusion: smartphones do not belong […]
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