Social media companies should be forced to pay a windfall tax to fund mental health services amid a growing crisis in child suicide, experts have said.
Former Children’s Commissioner Anne Longfield and Steve Chalke, the founder of Oasis charity - which oversees more than 50 schools - said they have “never known a generation that is struggling as much with mental health problems” in their 40 years working with children.
They said “there is no doubt that it is fuelled and amplified by the dominance that social media now has in children’s lives”.
