{"id":14589,"date":"2024-05-24T23:38:24","date_gmt":"2024-05-24T21:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/24\/mps-urge-under-16s-uk-smartphone-ban-and-statutory-ban-in-schools\/"},"modified":"2024-05-24T23:38:24","modified_gmt":"2024-05-24T21:38:24","slug":"mps-urge-under-16s-uk-smartphone-ban-and-statutory-ban-in-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/24\/mps-urge-under-16s-uk-smartphone-ban-and-statutory-ban-in-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"MPs urge under-16s UK smartphone ban and statutory ban in schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Commons education committee chair says online world poses serious dangers and parents face uphill struggle<\/p>\n<p>MPs have urged the next government to consider a total ban on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2024\/feb\/17\/thousands-join-uk-parents-calling-for-smartphone-free-childhood\">smartphones for under 16-year-olds<\/a> and a statutory ban on mobile phone use in schools as part of a crackdown on screen time for children.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the House of Commons education committee made the recommendations in a report into the impact of screen time on education and wellbeing, which also called on ministers to raise the threshold for opening a social media account to 16.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/article\/2024\/may\/25\/mps-urge-under-16s-smartphone-ban-statutory-ban-schools\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/c5d350db606d18b3366d7d2619a008d6f278544d\/0_192_5760_3456\/master\/5760.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=05159e726b4753c33317df49f51cf706\" title=\"MPs urge under-16s UK smartphone ban and statutory ban in schools\" \/>Commons education committee chair says online world poses serious dangers and parents face uphill struggle<br \/>\nMPs have urged the next government to consider a total ban on smartphones for under 16-year-olds and a statutory ban on mobile phone use in schools as part of a crackdown on screen time for children.<br \/>\nMembers of the House of Commons education committee made the recommendations in a report into the impact of screen time on education and wellbeing, which also called on ministers to raise the threshold for opening a social media account to 16. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commons education committee chair says online world poses serious dangers and parents face uphill struggle MPs have urged the next government to consider a total ban on smartphones for under 16-year-olds and a statutory ban on mobile phone use in schools as part of a crackdown on screen time for children. Members of the House &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/24\/mps-urge-under-16s-uk-smartphone-ban-and-statutory-ban-in-schools\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">MPs urge under-16s UK smartphone ban and statutory ban in schools<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":14590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14589"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}