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A new study has examined a less obvious manifestation of prejudice — student bullying that’s motivated by race, ethnicity, gender identity, religion or sexual orientation. And its researchers have concluded that this particular type of bullying can have a lasting negative impact on an individual’s health and well-being.

The Home Secretary has launched a public consultation to decide if there should be a statutory reporting duty for forced marriage and female genital mutilation (FGM) and which professions it should apply to.

Eight out of 10 parents expressed concern about the nature of closed group chats, used on platforms such as WhatsApp and Snapchat.

The Duke of Cambridge said tech firms ‘still have a great deal to learn’ about their responsibilities.

Pushed to the brink by bullies Lilly-Jo Caldcott spent her 10th birthday in a hospital bed after attempting suicide.

Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said on Thursday the world's largest social media service would create an independent body to review user appeals of content takedowns, saying his company should not by itself be making "so many important decisions about free expression and safety."

A report published today finds that local agencies must learn lessons from past sexual exploitation cases to respond to 'county lines' and other child criminal exploitation.

The Chief Inspector addressed the NCAS conference in Manchester about local authority children's services, criminal exploitation of children and county lines.

Sextortion blackmailers have used computer game Fortnite as a platform to lure children into sending naked pictures and perform sexual acts on them, Canadian police have said.

Pupils in schools where smartphones are banned like being free of the associated pressures, says England's Children's Commissioner Anne Longfield.

One in six pupils experiences bullying, with girls more likely to be targeted than boys, report reveals

How schools can support pupils whose mental health problems manifest themselves in behaviour.

Every year, 16,000 children leave school because of bullying. Hannah Letters was one of them. She talks about how she got back on track

Almost half of young people said they had been bullied face-to-face in the last six months

And now experts are warning that parents, technology companies and the government should consider the effect that large digital footprints could have on young people.

Technology companies are gathering data on children via their toys - and often don't make it clear exactly what they do with it, experts have warned.

The politics of sharenting – whether or not to upload images of your children online, particularly prior to their being old enough to consent to it – are becoming increasingly complicated

The research - called Who Knows What About Me - by the children's commissioner for England has revealed that individuals' digital footprints begin forming sometimes even before birth with online posts by parents.

Despite years of research and well-intentioned interventions, it remains a common problem in schools up and down the country. For those affected, almost nothing is more important, and quite rightly so.

Self-harm among teenagers has become so prevalent that one school asked pupils to sign a contract confirming they would not self-harm while on the premises, and would cover up their wounds in the event that they did. HuffPost reports.