{"id":227095,"date":"2025-10-26T21:14:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T21:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/227095\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T21:14:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T21:14:09","slug":"sri-lanka-to-ban-smartphone-use-by-children-under-12-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/227095\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka to ban smartphone use by children under 12 \u2013 Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka is planning to introduce a ban on the use of smartphones by school children under the age of 12, Child Affairs Minister Saroja Paulraj announced.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a function attended by school children, the Minister said the government will take a decision to ensure that no child below 12 years of age is allowed to own or use a mobile phone.<\/p>\n<p>She said the move aims to protect children from excessive screen time and exposure to harmful online content, while encouraging healthier childhood development and social interaction. (Newswire)<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Sri Lanka plans to ban the use of smartphones by school children.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will take a decision that no child under 12 can get a phone,\u201d said Child Affairs Minister Saroja Paulraj, speaking at a function attended by school children. \ud83d\udcf5\ud83c\uddf1\ud83c\uddf0 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Wnq60e1UUL\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/Wnq60e1UUL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NewsWire \ud83c\uddf1\ud83c\uddf0 (@NewsWireLK) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NewsWireLK\/status\/1982403307902816676?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">October 26, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka is planning to introduce a ban on the use of smartphones by school children under the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227096,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[2306,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-227095","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-mobile","9":"tag-technology","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}