Motion or amendment: Tackling the Impact of Online Harms on Young People (Revised Wording) - Amendment 1

Motion or amendment by Mr David Brooks on .

MLA
Mr David Brooks
Party at the time
Democratic Unionist Party
Date
9 May 2025
Type
Motion or amendment
Business
Motion Amendment · Private Members' Motion · to “Tackling the Impact of Online Harms on Young People (Revised Wording)”
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Tackling the Impact of Online Harms on Young People (Revised Wording) - Amendment 1
Assembly identifier
Document 438884

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Tackling the Impact of Online Harms on Young People (Revised Wording) - Amendment 1

Leave out all after ‘cross-departmental working’ and insert:

‘; calls on the Minister of Education to advance the ongoing pilot to limit the use of smartphones in schools, integrate online safety into the curriculum, provide training for teachers on online safety, seek to increase the provision of counselling services in schools and ensure Relationships and Sex Education helps tackle drivers of online abuse; and further calls on the Minister of Justice to unlock additional resources for the PSNI’s child internet protection team by ensuring funding for policing is adequately prioritised, including through progressing the Chief Constable’s recovery business case to increase the police workforce.’

118 words. Text as published by the Northern Ireland Assembly.

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