{"id":88014,"date":"2026-04-21T08:32:58","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T08:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=88014"},"modified":"2026-04-21T08:32:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T08:32:58","slug":"mobile-phones-to-be-banned-in-schools-in-england-under-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/04\/21\/mobile-phones-to-be-banned-in-schools-in-england-under-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"Mobile phones to be banned in schools in England under plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1TZjRn.img?w=534&amp;h=356&amp;m=6\" alt=\"The education secretary has previously written to headteachers in England to stress that schools should be phone-free throughout the entire school day (PA)\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The government will seek to make phone bans in schools statutory by introducing an amendment in the House of Lords to the Children\u2019s Wellbeing and Schools Bill. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/mobile-phones-to-be-banned-in-schools-in-england-under-plans\/ar-AA21k7D8?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=69e73166dc584553818822ef07964a6d&amp;ei=125\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>The government will seek to make phone bans in schools statutory by introducing an amendment in the House of Lords to the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-88014","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/school-classroom.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88014"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88015,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88014\/revisions\/88015"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}