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Online Safety Newsletter Primary December 2023

The digital 5 a day provides a simple framework that reflects the concerns of parents/ carers as well as children’s behaviours and needs. It can also act as a base for family agreements about internet and digital device use throughout both the holidays and term time.

https://www.childrenscommissioner.gov.uk/digital/5-a-day/

Based on the NHS’s evidence-based ‘‘five steps to better mental wellbeing’, the digital 5 a day campaign gives children and parents easy to follow, practical steps to achieve a healthy and balanced digital diet.

Youtuber Simply Luke took our digital 5 a day challenge – see how he got on:

Solving together: an online conversation about reducing waiting times for children and young people’s mental health services

For the first time, the NHS is launching a month-long online conversation on children and young people’s mental health, with a focus on gathering learning and ideas on how we can improve waiting times and make services more accessible. Using the Solving Together platform, we will be inviting partners involved in the children and young people’s mental health pathway, professionals, children and young people and their families, to have a say about this critical issue – with a focus on collecting ideas and best practice for ways to make our NHS services better in the future. We then plan to work with teams across the country to prototype and test the most promising ideas.  The conversations will be live from 9 October. Come and have your say – we want to hear from you at https://solvingtogether.crowdicity.com/