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Social media time limits won’t protect children

If we are serious about keeping children safe, we must stop wasting time with ineffectual experiments
Daniel Kebede Guest Contributor

General secretary, National Education Union

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The government’s new pilot to test social media time limits and overnight curfews for teenagers may sound reassuring.

But for the teachers and leaders I represent, it is a dangerously tepid response to a very real problem that warrants much more urgent action.

The sort of urgent action we really need was blocked by MPs last week, when they voted for a second time against introducing a ban on social media for under‑16s.

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