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This year the theme for Mental Health Awareness Week is ‘Nature’. Over the last twelve months getting outside and enjoying the fresh air has never seemed more important and although it has been a cold winter the brighter days are now here and soon it will be warmer too – so let’s get outside. Here are ten ideas of what you might like to do.
The Molly Rose Foundation (MRF) is urgently calling for a strengthened Online Safety Bill (OSB) in light of an amendment which would allow social media bosses to escape criminal prosecution over illegal content promoting suicide and self harm.
Commissioner’s Office said the social media platform allowed up to 1.4m children under 13 to use it in 2020, which was against its terms of service.
The move will see the university’s Mental Health in Schools Award, which is run by the Carnegie Centre of Excellence for Mental Health in Schools, updated to include new statements directly relating to digital safety.
This three-page guide to the Online Safety Bill appears on the SWGfL website, a charity dedicated to empowering the safe and secure use of technology globally.
The theme for this year’s Children’s Mental Health Awareness Week is Let’s Connect. The activities that we have put on our Primary resources page give KS2 children to opportunity to reflect on their relationships with the people around them.
Images and film of self-harm and suicide viewed by Molly Russell in the months before her death will be shared with members of the House of Lords on Monday 30 January as part of Molly’s family’s campaign to strengthen the Online Safety Bill.
The Molly Rose Foundation is pleased the Online Safety Bill is a step closer to becoming law and we look forward to the debate to come in the House of Lords.
The Molly Rose Foundation considers the platforms’ responses to the coroner’s call for action in preventing future deaths underwhelming and unsurprising.