{"id":42646,"date":"2025-09-03T14:07:36","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T14:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/03\/mother-of-brianna-ghey-joins-kate-winslet-in-call-for-smartphone-ban-in-schools-11\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T14:07:36","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T14:07:36","slug":"mother-of-brianna-ghey-joins-kate-winslet-in-call-for-smartphone-ban-in-schools-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/03\/mother-of-brianna-ghey-joins-kate-winslet-in-call-for-smartphone-ban-in-schools-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother of Brianna Ghey joins Kate Winslet in call for smartphone ban in schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Esther Ghey urges government to implement legal ban and says current guidance creates \u2018postcode lottery\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Esther Ghey, the mother of the murdered teenager Brianna Ghey, and the Oscar-winning actor Kate Winslet are calling on Keir Starmer to legally ban smartphones in schools, warning current guidance against allowing phones has created a \u201cpostcode lottery\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>As children in England and Wales return to classes this week, Ghey said research showed that only 11% of secondary schools were currently implementing a full ban on bringing in smartphones or requiring them to be left in a secure and inaccessible place all day.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/education\/2025\/sep\/03\/brianna-ghey-kate-winslet-smartphone-schools-campaign\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Esther Ghey urges government to implement legal ban and says current guidance creates \u2018postcode lottery\u2019 Esther Ghey, the mother of the murdered teenager Brianna Ghey, and the Oscar-winning actor Kate Winslet are calling on Keir Starmer to legally ban smartphones in schools, warning current guidance against allowing phones has created a \u201cpostcode lottery\u201d. As children [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flwnet.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}