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Discover more tips and best practice for using digital tools to support children and young people in our blog.

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Gaming and Mental Health

Gaming is extremely popular with children and young people: 57% of UK children aged 3-15 play games online and 38% of those 16+ do (Ofcom,…

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What is sextortion and how can we protect young people from it?

Sextortion has been in the news a lot lately. Increasing reports of young people being targeted and the devastating consequences that this can have on…

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11 Online Safety Resources

When we think about children and young people going online, often one of our main concerns is making sure that they are safe and have…

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Children and young people are being left behind – here’s what we can do about it

By Jane Grant, Health Improvement Lead, and Laura Hills, Health Improvement Senior, NHSGGC, on behalf of the Aye Mind Collaborative  “Access to the digital world…

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Screen time and mental health: What does the evidence say?

There is an ongoing and heated debate around the impact that “screen time” is having on children and young people’s mental health and wellbeing. This…

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Ten digital tools to help with anxiety

Anxiety is a normal emotion. All of us can feel it, but sometimes it can get out of control and can lead to a mental…

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Think technology is ruining our sleep? Think again

A guest blog written for World Sleep Day by Dr Dimitri Gavriloff, Clinical Psychologist and Clinical Course Tutor in Sleep Medicine at Oxford University. Dimitri…

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Designing for people that will be using this website – that’s you!

We began the re-boot project for Aye Mind with a big objective: learn from what we had done before, and have conversations with the community who will be using the site to really understand what you need from it (and our wider service).

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Partner insights: The power of digital tools for children and young people’s mental health and wellbeing

The launch of Aye Mind is the result of months of hard work between the Mental Health Improvement Team at NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde…

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