There is a silent crisis emerging in our classrooms.

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It happened by accident. No one voted for it, no one debated it, no parent was ever asked to consent to it, yet all too often, screens are now quietly replacing teachers.

The scale of it is laid bare in polling that SafeScreens conducted. It shows that nearly a million children, or 950,000 to be exact, are estimated to spend nearly every lesson on a one-to-one device.

A further 2.6 million are on screens every single day, among them are more than a quarter of a million primary school children, five, six and seven-year-olds, despite NHS advice that children of that age should have no more than two hours of screen time a day.

We are blowing through that limit before lunchtime, in the one place parents are entitled to assume their child is being taught.

What began as a temporary emergency measure during the pandemic has become permanently embedded, without........

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