2nd April 2018

Natterhub at Westminster

On 8.2.18 the Natterhub team attended the Westminster Education Forum for Preparing for Implementing Compulsory Relationships and Sex Education in Schools - Curriculum Content, Best Practice and Teacher Training

17th March 2018

Children as young as seven coaxed into 'streaming' explicit videos

Children as young as seven are being groomed by paedophiles and coaxed into ‘streaming’ sexually explicit pictures and footage of themselves online in exchange for ‘likes’ and ‘friends’ on social media sites, an internet watchdog has warned.

8th February 2018

How can I control my child's social media use?

‘Why do social media sites such as Instagram, Twitter, Facebook etc deem children “adults” in the vast and dangerous world of technology?’ Photograph: Caiaimage/Paul Viant/Getty Images/Caiaimage

12th January 2018

Childhood and Adolescent Anxiety and Social Media

Recently the NSPCC revealed that it had counselled 11,706 young people for anxiety in 2015-2016 via its Childline telephone counselling services--a 35% rise from the previous year. Most shockingly, a child in distress telephones Childline every thirty minutes to talk about feelings of suicide.