{"id":18425,"date":"2025-04-10T04:37:31","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T02:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/10\/more-than-90-of-schools-in-england-ban-mobile-phone-use-survey-shows\/"},"modified":"2025-04-10T04:37:31","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T02:37:31","slug":"more-than-90-of-schools-in-england-ban-mobile-phone-use-survey-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/10\/more-than-90-of-schools-in-england-ban-mobile-phone-use-survey-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 90% of schools in England ban mobile phone use, survey shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Head of National Education Union calls for statutory ban on phones in schools and social media ban for under-16s<\/p>\n<p>Almost all schools in England have banned mobile phone use by pupils, according to the first national survey conducted, as the leader of the largest teaching union called for a statutory ban owing to the \u201cdamaging impact\u201d on young people.<\/p>\n<p>The national survey, ordered by Rachel de Souza, the children\u2019s commissioner for England, showed that headteachers have swiftly instituted bans on smartphone use during school hours. The survey of more than 15,000 schools found that 99.8% of primary schools and 90% of secondary schools have some form of ban.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/education\/2025\/apr\/10\/majority-of-schools-in-england-ban-mobile-phone-use-survey-shows\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/e32f8a0e9cd7ed09648a57372b70897131e7a8f8\/0_0_4896_2938\/master\/4896.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=0c8c1b4d377858588f5011476a2a431a\" title=\"More than 90% of schools in England ban mobile phone use, survey shows\" \/>Head of National Education Union calls for statutory ban on phones in schools and social media ban for under-16s<br \/>\nAlmost all schools in England have banned mobile phone use by pupils, according to the first national survey conducted, as the leader of the largest teaching union called for a statutory ban owing to the \u201cdamaging impact\u201d on young people.<br \/>\nThe national survey, ordered by Rachel de Souza, the children\u2019s commissioner for England, showed that headteachers have swiftly instituted bans on smartphone use during school hours. The survey of more than 15,000 schools found that 99.8% of primary schools and 90% of secondary schools have some form of ban. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Head of National Education Union calls for statutory ban on phones in schools and social media ban for under-16s Almost all schools in England have banned mobile phone use by pupils, according to the first national survey conducted, as the leader of the largest teaching union called for a statutory ban owing to the \u201cdamaging &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/10\/more-than-90-of-schools-in-england-ban-mobile-phone-use-survey-shows\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More than 90% of schools in England ban mobile phone use, survey shows<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18426,"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\/18425"}],"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=18425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}