As calls grow for tighter social media restrictions, Youth Sport Trust warns digital dependency is undermining children’s health, happiness and life chances and urges renewed investment in play and sport to combat this.
Growing calls for a social media ban or greater restrictions highlights that we are now at a tipping point in this debate. Back in 2015, Youth Sport Trust published the first of what has since become a trilogy of Class of 2035 reports warning of a generation being held hostage by handheld devices. The onset of a society where digital supersedes human interaction and social algorithms drive dependency is affecting children’s cognitive, social and emotional development and driving physical activity levels down, further impacting on normal growth and development, as well as their health happiness and life chances.
Source – Youth Sport Trust