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What Parents and Educators Need to Know About TikTok
This online safety guide examines the TikTok app, highlighting risks such as inappropriate content, data misuse, addictive use, and stranger contact.
Now the world’s go-to short video platform, TikTok captivates young audiences with its endless stream of engaging clips, but not without potential pitfalls. From unsettling or age-inappropriate content to harmful viral challenges, misinformation and even radicalisation, this ever-popular app can expose children to content that may not always be suitable for them.
Our #WakeUpWednesday guide explores TikTok’s hidden hazards, including in-app spending, compulsive screen time and privacy concerns, offering clear advice for parents and educators. With expert insight and practical safety tips, it aims to help families ensure that TikTok use remains fun, positive and, most importantly, safe.
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What Parents & Educators Need to Know about School Avoidance
This information guide addresses school avoidance and offers some top tips for helping children and young people to overcome their anxiety – What You Need to Know about School Avoidance
School avoidance is a sharply increasing phenomenon, with tangible negative effects on children’s wellbeing and education. The factors that come together to make a child consciously avoid seeing their classmates and teachers can be much more complicated than is often assumed. A careful, mindful approach from parents, carers and educators is required to help children return to an environment that may be causing them intense anxiety.
Our guide aims to help you understand the issue of school avoidance – not only its potential roots and ramifications, but also what you can do to help children and young people navigate these obstacles and continue their education.
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https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02667360601154691
Gregory and Purcell, Out of school: a phenomenological exploration of extended non-attendance, 2014
Hughes, E K, Gullone, E, Dudley, A and Tonge, B (2010). A case-control study of emotion regulation and school refusal in children and adolescents; Journal of Early Adolescence, 30, 691–706., 2010
Lyon and Cotler, Toward reduced bias and increased utility in the assessment of school refusal behaviour: The case for diverse samples and evaluations of context, 2007
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/pits.20247
Children’s Commissioner, Attendance is everyone’s business, 2023
https://www.childrenscommissioner.gov.uk/resource/attendance-is-everyones-business/
What Parents & Educators Need to Know: Memes
Memes may seem like harmless fun, but they can carry hidden risks. This guide explores how meme culture affects young people – from misinformation to inappropriate content and digital footprints.