With several countries around the world enacting bans on smartphones in schools, and on social media access for children, we ask -

Is their pervasive use having an detrimental impact on learning, concentration, mental health?

Should the UK also instigate a ban?

What’s happening in today’s classrooms, and what might the solutions be?

We’re joined by Cabinet Member for Children, Families and Education on Portsmouth City Council, 🟧Cllr Nick Dorrington, 🟥Cllr Mark Coates who happens to be a teacher, and Rachael Speed, also a Teacher.

This week saw Portsmouth City Council’s Mayor Making ceremony and Annual General Meeting.

We interviewed CLLRS Graham Heaney (Deputy Leader Labour group on PCC) & George Madgwick (Leader of Portsmouth Independents Party on PCC) to hear what happens when two parties can both lay claim to the number two spot on the council.

• How do you decide when the next largest groups on the council are two parties both with 9 Councillors?
• How do you make a Mayor?
• Why did the PIP Councillors chose not to sit with the other council members on stage for the ceremony?

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Solent WASPI talk to us about their campaign for fair treatment and justice.

-What do they want the campaign to achieve?

-What next after the government’s rejection that compensation is owed to women born in the 1950s?

WASPI web address:

www.waspi.co.uk

WASPI Crowdjustice page, which includes the most recent legal updates:

https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/waspijustice/

Their Facebook pages are:

https://www.facebook.com/WaspiCampaign

https://www.facebook.com/SolentWASPI

on X:

@WASPI_Campaign

@solent_waspi

Recorded livestream (portrait) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIvRDctNXBY

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