📢 The Government launched a consultation to explore a social media ban for children, considering age verification and online safety measures. Parents calling for a social media ban for all UK children have had a response from the Government. It added: ‘There is a clear consensus that there are issues to tackle in regard to children’s use of social media, however there is a difference of opinion in how children’s relationship with social media and screentime should be further tackled. © Shutterstock‘This is shown by some of the most prominent voices in this field believing that a social media ban is not the right answer. Parents can also read and sign the parliamentary petition, titled ‘Ban social media for under-16s to protect children’.