Are youngsters suffering from a lack of wellbeing due to social media use? Specialists are concerned about their wellbeing. — Photo: Annette Riedl/dpa
LONDON: The UK’s largest teaching union has said “students are being robbed” of their wellbeing by social media, as it calls for the digital age of consent to rise from 13 to 16.
The National Education Union (NEU) and supporting organisations have launched Robbed: Big Tech’s Little Victims, to call for guaranteed space on the school curriculum to teach digital literacy; a windfall tax on social media companies to pay for mental health services; and for the government to publish guidance on the health impacts of social media for children.
