{"id":90765,"date":"2026-06-15T07:49:58","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T07:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=90765"},"modified":"2026-06-15T07:49:58","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T07:49:58","slug":"starmer-announces-social-media-ban-for-under-16s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/06\/15\/starmer-announces-social-media-ban-for-under-16s\/","title":{"rendered":"Starmer announces social media ban 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\"> < 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA25EkFO.img?w=768&h=432&m=6&x=258&y=142&s=190&d=190\" alt=\"Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has announced a social media ban for under-16s (Toby Shepheard\/PA)\" width=\"690\" height=\"389\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Children under age 16 will be banned from social media in a \u201cbig moment for our country\u201d, Sir Keir Starmer said.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/starmer-announces-social-media-ban-for-under-16s\/ar-AA25Ex8g?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=6a2fae217d034373ad387ca9ac3fa1c0&ei=13\"> 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>Children under age 16 will be banned from social media in a \u201cbig moment for our country\u201d, Sir Keir Starmer said. Read&#8230;<\/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":["post-90765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","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\/90765","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=90765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90766,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90765\/revisions\/90766"}],"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=90765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}