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 […]
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 […]
The UK is having one of the most important conversations about childhood in a generation. The Government’s “Growing up in the online world” consultation has now closed, with a response expected over the summer. Ofcom has published its most comprehensive research yet into how children experience the internet. The Commons Education Committee has called for […]
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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