Question follow-through · 48913

Schools: Social Media

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to increase awareness of the risks of social media in schools.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body: Department for Education
Tabled: 29 Apr 2025
Target answer date: 1 May 2025
Answer: 28 May 2025 · 29 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

29 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to increase awareness of the risks of social media in schools.
1 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 May 2025
Answer published
Education is a devolved matter, and the response outlines the information for England only.For schools in England, pupils are taught about online safety as part of statutory relationships and health education in primary schools and relationships, sex and ...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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