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Smartphone Free Schools Rating is launching a new rating system for ‘simple’ phones, designed to help parents and schools identify safer handsets for children.

King’s College London are inviting schools to take part in a new study on smartphone free school policies. The study is called the ‘Pouch Study’; it was initially designed to examine policies where smartphones are taken to school but locked away. However, they are now expanding their research to include schools with ‘brick’ phone only policies (also known to Smartphone Free Schools Rating as ‘Gold’ standard policies). In total, three categories of policy - also known as gold,

For most school leaders, the weeks ahead represent an adrenaline filled stamina test –pulling off the productions, sports days, concerts, fairs, celebrations and transition events that mark the end of the school year. Sitting in the background is a gnawing concern – the list of tasks that need to be completed ahead of the new academic year.

Today, Smartphone Free Schools Rating releases a new map to track the growing trend of local authority wide school smartphone policies...

Headteachers are rolling out a new national school smartphone rating system over rising fears about the damage phones are doing to children’s learning and wellbeing. Smartphone Free Schools Rating will help parents and teachers protect children from harmful content during school hours, giving them a clear six-hour break from their devices and improving social engagement and learning. On Tuesday 24 June, Parliamentarians will celebrate the first-of-its-kind national Smartphone