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We are a team of grassroots campaigners concerned about the over-exposure of children and teenagers to unrestricted, unregulated smart devices, and the increasingly negative consequences these devices are having for childhood and adolescence.
Our history
When we launched in December 2022 we were the first UK organisation to propose a bespoke regulatory solution to counter the many harms and risks of harm that flow from children’s exposure to smartphones, and the 24/7 unrestricted internet access and sophisticated data-harvesting businesses that smartphones facilitate.
We are a team of parents. We understand the issues faced by families up and down the country and we are proud to have lit the fuse on what has become a nationwide – and international – grassroots movement to reclaim childhood and to push back against the corporate interests that view our children and their data as a revenue generating opportunity.
Campaigning for social and legal change
Schools have been relentlessly targeted by corporate interests, with the introduction of endless unregulated, untested, unproven and often gamified ‘learning’ apps and platforms which are pushed into schools and presented to parents and pupils as an exciting, engaging new way of learning.
We believe that computing and digital literacy are important components of a rounded curriculum, but as parents we see with our own eyes that the EdTech revolution is delivering first and foremost for EdTech providers, the Department for Education and local authorities, whose interests – primarily financial – are aligned.
So we are campaigning to ensure that in the future schools will only be able to deploy pupil-facing devices and online teaching software that are independently assessed as providing better educational outcomes than non-digital alternatives, and for EdTech to become the exception rather than the norm in our schools.
Alongside our awareness-raising and advocacy activities, we run strategic legal and political campaigns to try to achieve social and legal change. We work with politicians of all parties and other public and private organisations and individuals who value and wish to advance the interests of children.
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