Dealing with Cyber-bullying

The Education Secretary has called on social media influences and online celebrities to do more to promote healthy body image stereotypes to the young people who follow them, to ensure children are growing up with a realistic view on body image. 

Key facts
  • Conservatives want social media influencers, often followed by hundreds of thousands of young people, to help fight against negative body image, by making sure their social media content is less focused on appearance and ensuring there is more transparency about how online photos are edited. 
  • New data has shown that 40 per cent of teenagers said that things their friends have said have made them worry about their body image. 
  • From 2020, the Conservative government is introducing compulsory health and relationships education in every state funded school. This means every child will learn about internet safe and harms – including the unrealistic expectation of body image often found online. 

Why this matters:

The internet can bring fantastic benefits to young people, but too many are growing up with a warped view of what is normal because of what they see online. Social media influencers need to think about what they are posting on their platforms, ensuring young people have a healthy and realistic understanding of body image.

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