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‘Worrying’ screen time levels mean that young people lose their confidence in socialization personally, Lisa Nandy warns
Good morning. Keir Starmer made a visit today and will make broadcast interviews. This week may be the only time we have heard from him, and there is no shortage of issues that journalists want to ask him. At the end of the day, we can get new or new lines in Gaza, the return of “one, an out”, the agreement with France, according to a report foreseen for the prediction of Ukraine status in the black hole in the government’s finance (today priced with a very respectable thought), and against this case against this case against the case against this case.
But Starmer wants to talk about something else – less party is political, less ‘Westminster Agenda’, but undisputedly more important or more important than other issues: the Internet is doing for our children.
Officially, Cultural Secretary Starmer and Lisa Nandy announce an investment of 88 million pounds to youth clubs. However, the damages to children by social media want to talk about what they say that they spend so much time on their screens and that they say that they have lost their ability to socialize personally.
In a statement of the government newsletter About Finance, Starmer says:
Growing today is difficult for young people. As they progress in the online world, they often find themselves isolated at home and are disconnected from their communities.
As a government, we have the duty to act on this worrying tendency. Today’s investment is about providing a better alternative: transformative, real world opportunities, which will influence in the country -wide communities, thus discover something new, find their sparks, and develop the trust and life skills that no algorithm can teach.
In an interview on the program today, Nandy They were asked to explain what this “anxious tendency” was. He replied:
It keeps me awake at night. When we first elected to the government for the first time last year, one of the first things I did was to appoint a group of young people to control the first national youth strategy in a few decades. I was surprised to find out that there was no one.
What we find in this process is the majority of young people – and the majority – they spend all or almost all of their free time in the bedrooms, online, online, online, and lose their confidence to connect to people in the real world.
An important part of them says they have no adults to trust and support them in the world. This is really, it’s really about.
And today, one of the reasons why we announce this fund is to open opportunities for young people in youth clubs and schools to live richer, larger lives, because there is an urgent need for our generation to step and help before it is too late.
At work Eleni AreaThe story about the initiative overnight.
Soon I will publish more than Nandy’s interviews.
Starmer’s visit takes place in Hertfordshire this morning. Apart from that, the daily is relatively empty, but of course it does not mean that there will be nothing to cover; News is not always predictable.
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