A children’s charity has warned of a “national childhood emergency” after a survey found less than a quarter of young people think childhood is better now than it was for
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Misinformation about attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) on TikTok is widespread and affecting young people, according to a new study. Fewer than half of the claims regarding symptoms in the
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TikTok, along with online forum site Reddit and image-sharing site Imgur, are to be investigated by the UK’s data protection watchdog over how they use personal information of teenage users.
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Nearly a dozen Labour councillors have been suspended from the party as part of its investigation into a WhatsApp group that has already seen two MPs lose the whip. The
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A second MP has lost the Labour whip over his membership of a WhatsApp group containing offensive comments, after a minister was sacked following messages he sent to the chat.
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Ashley Dalton, Labour MP for West Lancashire, has been appointed as a minister in the Department of Health and Social Care after Andrew Gwynne was sacked over the weekend following
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More than 8,000 social media accounts linked to people smuggling were taken down following referrals from the National Crime Agency (NCA) last year, the law enforcement body said. This was
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The Scottish Government will convene a new task force to look at what can be done to tackle online harms to children as it was urged to consider a social
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The mother of a former police officer who was given a life sentence for child sex abuse has been sentenced to two years for perverting the course of justice, after
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A prolific sex offender from Northern Ireland, who posed as a teenage boy on Snapchat and Instagram to trap his child victims, has been sentenced to 27 years in prison.
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