As a former teacher and charity CEO, I’m passionate about giving all children from all backgrounds the opportunity to thrive.
A growing body of evidence is showing that smartphones, and social media in particular, are negatively impacting children’s mental health, sleep and learning.
The amount of time these addictive devices and apps take away from real life play and interactions is a major issue for parents, young people, teachers and society. And we know the impact is more acute for vulnerable children.
This Bill aims to make smartphones less addictive for children and empower families and teachers to cut down on children’s daily smartphone screen time.
I look forward to the debate and hope to convince colleagues from across the House to back the Bill. I’d urge supporters to write to their MPs to encourage them to do so.
Josh MacAlister OBE MP (Labour - Whitehaven and Workington)