Primary schools headteachers have written to parents asking them not to give smartphones to their children amid fears for their mental health.
Primary school headteachers have claimed smartphones"rob" pupils of their childhood as they asked parents to delay giving them to their children.
The consortium, consisting of 12 headteachers, warned that smartphones can expose young children to harmful sites such as pornography, bullying or grooming content, adding that they had “no place in the life of a primary-aged school child”.While the schools group recognised parents’ need to contact their children, it warned that smartphones were “highly-addictive” and have been linked to poor mental health, depression and low self-esteem.
The Smartphone Free Childhood campaign was set up in February by two friends Daisy Greenwell and Clare Fernyhoug in Suffolk who created a WhatsApp group to support other parents in refusing to give their child a smartphone.
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