Education committee transcript: Screen Time: Impacts on education and wellbeing - Feb 20

The Education Committee will assess how screentime can support and impact children’s development, wellbeing, and educational outcomes.

The Committee will also examine the effectiveness of digital safety education in schools and the ways in which schools and parents can be better supported to manage children’s screen usage.

The inquiry will also focus on how screen use for academic purposes is being managed in schools

Witnesses: Dame Rachel de Souza (The Children’s Commissioner at Office of the Children's Commissioner for England)

Witnesses: Jessica Edwards (Senior Policy Advisor on Childhood Harms at Barnardo’s), David Wright (Director at The UK Safer Internet Centre (UKSIC), and CEO at SWGfL), and Ian Critchley (Lead on Child Protection at National Police Chiefs’ Council)