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Social Media & Mental Health; the positive and negative impacts Online Safety Guide
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Social Media & Mental Health; the positive and negative impacts Online Safety Guide
Published 26th June 2019
Social Media is often scrutinised as having a negative impact on children’s mental health. Children and young people are now growing up in a technology dominated world, and social media plays a major role in their social lives. This balanced guide focuses at both the positive and negative impacts that social media can bring to young people and their mental health.
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