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Porn-pandemic

In a recent Ofsted survey it was highlighted that teenage girls were asked for nudes by up to 11 boys a night. The impact of pornography on young people is a silent pandemic that has been spreading for years. The rise of social media channels where images can be shared

Kieran Murphy Jun 18, 2021 • 3 min read

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TV review - The Social Dilemma

I watched this Netflix documentary last week. I’ve changed the way I consume social media as a result. It’s a docu-drama (half documentary and half fictionalised scenes of a ‘normal’ family interacting with each other and their phones) that discusses how social media companies monetise our attention, what

Elizabeth Feltoe Nov 16, 2020 • 3 min read

Young People

Changing the landscape COVID-19

We have lived through a week that will define a generation. The COVID-19 crisis has turned the world upside down for all, but mostly for our children and young people. As the dust settles and we come to terms with the likelihood of schools being closed until September, with the

Kieran Murphy Mar 24, 2020 • 1 min read

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Say cheese!!

It’s World Smile Day today, Friday 4th October. That Friday feeling usually makes me break out in a grin, I have to say. Friday is my favourite day of the week because you have all of the anticipation of the weekend ahead plus I get to have pizza on

Elizabeth Feltoe Oct 4, 2019 • 2 min read

Young People

Charity Film Awards

This year Phase has entered one of its “Let Talk” Films into the Charity Film Awards. What are these? I hear you say… The Charity Film Awards are for charities who have created videos which have the power to move, to warm hearts, to inspire, to engage…. to change the

Donna Wade Nov 28, 2018 • 2 min read

wellbeing

October Wellbeing Challenge 2018

October is here and that means a new challenge! This month’s challenge is a social media detox 😱 Wait don’t close the page. I know, I know this is going to be a real challenge for some of you. It will definitely be a challenge for me. Why even

Sasha Austin-Seade Oct 1, 2018 • 2 min read

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Social media and social change

We hear a lot about social media in the news and about many of its negative effects on our brains, mental health, physical health, sleep and so on. As a young person in a school environment I am more than aware, like most of my generation, of the impacts that

Molly Rackham Mar 23, 2018 • 5 min read

mental health

Mental Health Awareness Week 2016

(16th - 22nd May 2016, was Mental Health Awareness Week and this year the theme was relationships.) This blog post is titled 'people need other people' “You’ll need coffee shops and sunsets and road trips. Airplanes and passports and new songs and old songs, but people more than anything

Bethany Murray Jun 9, 2016 • 3 min read

Youth Work

Relationships workshops

Recently we delivered workshops about Relationships in Hitchin Boys' School as part of the schools sex education course with year 9. The workshop starts by defining what relationships are, thinking about all the different relationships we have around us. We then move on to think about more intimate relationships. Thinking

Paul Harris Jun 1, 2016 • 1 min read