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Smartphones are quietly eroding kids’ social skills—and schools are scrambling to fix it. At Shelton Junior School in Derby, teachers are running “circle coaching” to teach kids how to talk, listen, and disagree without drama. Across the East Midlands, schools are urging parents to delay phone purchases until after secondary school, citing plummeting attention spans and broken communication. Headteachers say kids are losing basic social abilities once learned naturally. Nationally, policymakers are eyeing strict new rules—potentially even bans for under-sixteens, inspired by Australia’s model—with the Prime Minister calling for a “game-changer” to shield children from online harms. Parents feel the pressure too: most believe childhood is worse now, and social media tops their list of threats to kids’ mental health.

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