{"id":66873,"date":"2025-10-10T23:58:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T23:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/66873\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T23:58:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T23:58:07","slug":"cross-party-working-group-to-discuss-screen-time-among-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/66873\/","title":{"rendered":"Cross-party working group to discuss &#8216;screen-time&#8217; among children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A cross-party working group will meet today for the first time to discuss how to tackle the exponential growth\u00a0in mental health issues\u00a0among school children.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on last night&#8217;s Viewpoint programme,\u00a0the Minister for Health, Gemma Arias-Vasquez, said the results of a survey on screeen usage has highlighted how concerning the problem is.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Arias-Vasquez said the group, which would also include the GSD&#8217;s Joelle Ladislaus,\u00a0will set out a strategy as the GHA looks towards a\u00a0developmental pathway to help young people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A cross-party working group will meet today for the first time to discuss how to tackle the exponential&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66874,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[163,85,46,522,523],"class_list":{"0":"post-66873","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-mental-health","12":"tag-mentalhealth"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66873","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=66873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}