The Latest Breaking News from Smartphone Free Childhood

It’s a year since teachers in St Albans asked parents not to give younger children smartphones. How successful have they been? What do the kids think about it? And has it made the adults think about their own ‘addiction’?

Rebecca Cox, mum to a 9-year-old boy, tries to find the answers in the wake of Adolescence, and as Andrew Tate returns to court

In today’s newsletter: Momentum is growing for stricter smartphone rules for children, as schools, parents, and ​t​he Children’s Commissioner push for bans amid rising concerns

Writer joins more than 100,000 parents who pledge to withhold smartphones until children are at least 14