The study’s findings challenge the assumption that kids who own smartphones tend to fare worse than those who don’t.

“You don’t go to sit on your mobile phone or to send messages while you could actually talk to somebody.” open image in gallery Some 97 per cent of children have a smartphone by the age of ...

Her comments come as a poll of children aged eight to 15 found that almost one in four spend more than four hours a day using a computer, phone, tablet or games console. Some 69 per cent of ...

Our study finds that kids who sleep with their phone in a different room get the minimum recommended nine hours for their age group; 1 in 4 kids sleep with their phone in their hand or in bed with ...

In a tense PMQs before Rachel Reeves’ spring statement, Kemi Badenoch demanded why Labour MPs voted “against banning phones in schools”. “Obviously a lot of people have been watching ...

"It’s what kids do with cell phones and challenges in regulating their device use, rather than merely owning a smartphone, that may cause difficulties or inversely benefit their lives." ...

Banning phones in schools should be a decision for head teachers and not "imposed nationally by the government", England's children's commissioner has said. Nine in ten secondary schools restrict ...