{"id":22509,"date":"2026-03-28T10:37:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T09:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/28\/what-does-new-guidance-in-the-uk-say-about-screen-time-for-children\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T10:37:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T09:37:18","slug":"what-does-new-guidance-in-the-uk-say-about-screen-time-for-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/28\/what-does-new-guidance-in-the-uk-say-about-screen-time-for-children\/","title":{"rendered":"What does new guidance in the UK say about screen time for children?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Experts recommend extremely limited use for children under-two amid \u2018mounting evidence\u2019 of harmful impact<\/p>\n<p>The government has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2026\/mar\/27\/starmer-vows-to-fight-social-media-firms-to-protect-children-from-addiction\">issued new guidance<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/beststartinlife.gov.uk\/screen-time-under-5s\/\">how much time<\/a> children below the age of five should spend on screens.<\/p>\n<p>Children\u2019s relationships with screens have become one of the key struggles of 21st-century parenting, along with the impact of the content that appears on those devices. The guidance has been developed by a panel led by the children\u2019s commissioner for England, Rachel de Souza, and children\u2019s health expert Prof Russell Viner.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2026\/mar\/27\/what-new-screen-time-guidance-children-uk\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/dd3e68b36307adce2877af9d5822e6f5ac872ce0\/829_0_4099_3280\/master\/4099.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=0a1ae8f91eb2b4aa68ca5f65e38055c9\" title=\"What does new guidance in the UK say about screen time for children?\" \/>Experts recommend extremely limited use for children under-two amid \u2018mounting evidence\u2019 of harmful impact<br \/>\nThe government has issued new guidance on how much time children below the age of five should spend on screens.<br \/>\nChildren\u2019s relationships with screens have become one of the key struggles of 21st-century parenting, along with the impact of the content that appears on those devices. The guidance has been developed by a panel led by the children\u2019s commissioner for England, Rachel de Souza, and children\u2019s health expert Prof Russell Viner. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experts recommend extremely limited use for children under-two amid \u2018mounting evidence\u2019 of harmful impact The government has issued new guidance on how much time children below the age of five should spend on screens. Children\u2019s relationships with screens have become one of the key struggles of 21st-century parenting, along with the impact of the content &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/28\/what-does-new-guidance-in-the-uk-say-about-screen-time-for-children\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What does new guidance in the UK say about screen time for children?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":22510,"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\/22509"}],"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=22509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}