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Rebecca Foljambe

@drbeckyfoljambe

NHS GP | Founder Health Professionals for Safer Screens | @FPAresources Ambassador | Social media conflicted 📚🎹🖋️

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Miriam Cates (@miriam_cates) 's Twitter Profile Photo

“Snapchat has argued that there are “strong benefits” of friend recommendation tools that recommend strangers as friends for children.” Yet again we see Big Tech preferring the interests of predators and paedophiles to the protection of children. telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/…

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Fighting an attempt by Ofcom to stop children receiving friend requests from strangers over the internet Snapchat uses ‘UK loneliness epidemic’ as excuse. Flouting all regard for child safety in favour of profit. This is what parents are up against. telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/…

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Arabella Skinner, director of the campaign group Safescreens, said: “We want the government to produce a risk assessment on the use of EdTech [educational technology], and there should be a moratorium on new tech purchases until it is completed.” This is absolutely correct bravo

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Is it any wonder that teen pregnancies and abortions are significantly on the rise again, undermining decades of work to bring these figures down. Social media algorithms pedalling contraception myths and horribly irresponsible misinformation; another dimension of the hideous

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Some alarming figures in here but a very interesting read. Thank you for coordinating this huge international study and for sharing Jo Inchley University of Glasgow HBSC Study. I feel it won’t be long before ‘problematic smartphone use’ is appearing as a recognised diagnosis in its own

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Excellent advice from Daniel Hardiman-McCartney MBE College of Optometrists on #WorldSightDay2024 ‘I am one of the growing number of health professionals concerned about the impact of screen-time on children’s eye health and development.’ Getting children outdoors more and off their screens is so

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Sharing delight to be part of the team working with Josh MacAlister MP. I am proud to be representing #healthprofessionalsforsaferscreens in this work and over the coming months we will be making sure the public and parents know of the many many health professionals who are certain

Molly Kingsley (@lensiseethrough) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Great to be on yesterday's BBC #SundayMorninglive explaining why a 'wise' phone for kids is an idea whose time has come. ❌NO to addictive-by-design hardware ❌NO to social media and unrestricted internet access ❌NO to attention-destroying gamification ✅YES to phone calls

Rebecca Foljambe (@drbeckyfoljambe) 's Twitter Profile Photo

An honour to be part of this brilliant letter to Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan written by the inspirational Tim Arnold Mr Khan Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, we feel your posters send the wrong message to adults and children alike. Problematic smartphone use is a serious and increasing clinical concern that

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We learn more from reading on paper than on screens. 54 studies, 171k people: we process print more deeply than digital content—as long as it's informational rather than purely narrative. The paper advantage holds across ages and has grown over time. Long live physical books.

We learn more from reading on paper than on screens.

54 studies, 171k people: we process print more deeply than digital content—as long as it's informational rather than purely narrative.

The paper advantage holds across ages and has grown over time. Long live physical books.
Rebecca Foljambe (@drbeckyfoljambe) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Brilliant Sandy Chappell speaking about the impacts of screens on school readiness (disastrous), and our call to the Professor Chris Whitty and the other UK CMOs to instruct an urgent public health campaign. #healthprofessionalsforsaferscreens #speechandlanguagecrisis

Katharine Birbalsingh (@miss_snuffy) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Following my meeting on Monday with the Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson my open letter to her is below and here: spectator.co.uk/article/what-i… My first open letter to her on 17 Jan is here: spectator.co.uk/article/what-p…

Following my meeting on Monday with the Education Secretary <a href="/bphillipsonMP/">Bridget Phillipson</a> my open letter to her is below and here:
spectator.co.uk/article/what-i…

My first open letter to her on 17 Jan is here: spectator.co.uk/article/what-p…
Parentkind (@parentkind) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Our CEO @jasonelsom has written to the @SOSforEducation today asking for action on smartphones in schools. Just 14% of secondary schools have effective bans according to teenagers. We need urgent clarification from the @DFE

Our CEO @jasonelsom has written to the @SOSforEducation today asking for action on smartphones in schools. Just 14% of secondary schools have effective bans according to teenagers. We need urgent clarification from the @DFE