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Generation Focus in the news
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Clare on BBC News Channel
Clare Fernyhough on BBC Politics, on why a minimum age for social media is essential
Clare Fernyhough on Woman’s Hour, calling for a pause on tracking (audio)
Generation Focus headteacher webinar
In the press
Coverage quoting Generation Focus, its research and its open letters.
Stratford Herald · Apr 2026
‘It’s our view that smartphones represent a safeguarding risk for young people’
The Times · Mar 2026
Third of older teenagers shown disturbing content on phones at school
The Times · Jan 2026
It destroyed me — one view of a suicide video at school gave me PTSD
The Times · Jan 2026
Tracking devices ‘make children more anxious and less independent’
LabourList · Dec 2025
The missing ‘B’ – the case for a national smartphone ban in schools
The Times · Nov 2025
I saw porn and murder at school. This is why I want smartphones banned
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