MP plan to ban smart phones in schools water

The MP behind a bill campaigners hoped that there would be a ban on smart phones in schools, he had admitted to giving water to his proposals to get government support.

Josh McLister told BBC News that he was now “focusing on areas where we can get government support so that we actually take some action in this field”.

Labor MP McLister for Whitehaven and Workington had earlier said that the law will give headtches Legal support to make schools mobile free.

The new version of the so-called safe phone bill asks for further research instead, as well as advice for parents on the use of smart phones and social media by children.

The private member’s bill will be debated by MPs on Friday when it will have a second reading in the House of Commons.

It was watered since the first proposed in October last year. This was originally seen to ban smartphones in schools and ban drug addiction social media algorithms, but now the government will be committed to further research rather than immediate change.

Asked about the changes made in his employed law, a former teacher, McClaster, said he would support the government to carry out “practical measures” “really closely with the government”, and “optimistic” ministers would support it.

Bills of private members rarely make laws without government support, but they are an opportunity for backbenchers to increase the profile of an issue.

Growing calls are being made to restrict the use of children’s smartphones, including local schools, which are joining the forces to delay their child policies and native groups to delay smartphones to their child.

However, some people in favor of the smartphone say that they provide child development opportunities including socialization, and there are very few evidence supporting the restrictions of equipment in schools.

McLister said that the proposal to ban smart phones in schools was removed from the bill, when the government was indicated “by the government that they were going to consider”.

The bill originally included proposals in October 2024:

• A legal requirement for all schools to be a mobile-free field
• Age Online Companies can obtain data consent from children without the permission of parents.
• The powers of TOCCOM are to be strengthened so that it can apply the code of conduct to prevent children from exposed to “addictive by design”.
• If necessary, further regulation of mobile phone design, supply, marketing and use by Under -16

Those proposals have been removed, and the bill is calling for now:

• Chief Medical Officer to guide the use of smartphones and social media by children within 12 months
• The Education Secretary is going to come up with a plan for research under the influence of social media use on children within 12 months.
• The government to return within a year to say if it will increase the digital age of consent from 13 to 16 – this means that online companies cannot get children’s data without the permission of the parents till that age.

The leader of the smartphone free childhood campaign Joe Rairy said that the final provision in the bill was “not near enough”.

Liberal Democrats accused the government of “thoughtful progress” on the issue, and suggested that the minister managed to insist on “water down”.

McLister said that “he wanted a campaign of persuasion to keep this campaign properly at the center of national debate and bring that debate to Parliament”.

He said: “I think what we will see in the government’s response to the bill is that they are ready to take some positive steps on this issue and they are committed to further action and I think it’s really positive.”

Friday’s debate in Commons comes as a report, a report suggested that most of the youth support the idea of ​​placing strict rules on social media, saying more than 60% say they believe that it does more harm than good.

Study from Think Tank, New UK project and polling firm, more than 1,600 people between the ages of 16 and 24 were surveyed more than 16 to 24 years.

It was found that three-fourths said that strong rules were required to protect young people from the loss of social media, and social media was named as the most negative impact on teenage mental health.