{"id":176227,"date":"2025-12-09T17:30:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T17:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/176227\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T17:30:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T17:30:08","slug":"millions-of-australian-teens-lose-access-to-social-media-accounts-as-ban-takes-effect-live-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/176227\/","title":{"rendered":"Millions of Australian teens lose access to social media accounts as ban takes effect &#8211; live updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The English schools where smartphones are off limitspublished at 17:21 GMT<\/p>\n<p>17:21 GMT<\/p>\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A close-up of hands holding smartphones, with one phone prominently in the centre being used. The setting appears to be a casual indoor environment, possibly a school cafeteria or common area, as there is a water bottle and blurred colourful objects in the background.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/feb6327e-f4b3-4363-94fb-8452d9da14c5.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1243\" height=\"699\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While the debate over children using social media continues, some schools in England have decided to ban students from using smartphones during the school day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At Brannel School in Cornwall, each student slips their phone into a special pouch that locks until the end of the day. The phones stay with the pupils, but they are out of reach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Head teacher Tristan Muller-Forster said the system tackled what he called &#8220;mobile fatigue&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At Chulmleigh College in Devon, phones can be brought in but they cannot be seen or heard. Break the rule and you risk losing your phone for weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Eight primary schools in Shropshire have also decided to ban smartphones from September 2026. Students at the schools, run by the Empower Multi-Academy Trust, will not be able take their devices into the building.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, they will be allowed to bring in a basic mobile phone, like a flip-phone, which will be locked away during the day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Several schools in the south of England are also now only allowing so-called brick phones to prevent children from accessing the internet, apps or cameras.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The English schools where smartphones are off limitspublished at 17:21 GMT 17:21 GMT While the debate over children&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176228,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[163,85,46,522,523],"class_list":["post-176227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-health","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}