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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Camilla Foster

Matt and Emma Willis: ‘I can’t see a safe way for a kid to have a smartphone’

Emma and Matt Willis next to the glass box where all the social experiment participants’ phones and iPads were locked -

TV presenters, and married couple, Emma and Matt Willis have opened up about the driving force behind their involvement with the new Channel 4 documentary Swiped: The School That Banned Smartphones.

The two-part documentary shines a light on the impact smartphones have on children’s behaviour with a landmark social experiment, where 30 Year 8 pupils from The Stanway School in Colchester are challenged to give up their phones and iPads for 21 days, and are monitored by researchers from the University of York.

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