{"id":88352,"date":"2026-04-28T06:57:44","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T06:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=88352"},"modified":"2026-04-28T06:57:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T06:57:44","slug":"uk-will-restrict-social-media-for-under-16s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/04\/28\/uk-will-restrict-social-media-for-under-16s\/","title":{"rendered":"UK will restrict social media for under-16s"},"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\/AA1ZLPKL.img?w=534&amp;h=300&amp;m=6\" alt=\"A phone screen showing social media apps. File pic: PA\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The UK will introduce restrictions on social media for under-16s, the education minister has said. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/uk-will-restrict-social-media-for-under-16s\/ar-AA21Rz4N?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=69f0594e3ec24b228852400e2f227c81&amp;ei=15\">Read More<\/a><\/strong><\/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 UK will introduce restrictions on social media for under-16s, the education minister has said. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45030,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-88352","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\/2023\/04\/Social-Media-challenges.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88352","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=88352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88353,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88352\/revisions\/88353"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}