Guiding Digital Childhoods
Guiding Digital Childhoods
A CAP-wide commitment to help families build healthy, balanced digital habits: delaying smartphones and social media, keeping school time phone-free, and creating more space for play, friendship and independence.
Real Life First | Delay is OK | Growing Up Offline
| Our Aim Support children’s healthy development and digital well-being through shared family principles and simple school commitments, developed across the local Chiltern Area Partnership (CAP). | Our Four Family Principles (CAP-wide) 📵 Delay smartphones to at least Year 9 🚫 Delay social media to at least 16 🏫 Phone-free school day 🌳 More independence, free play and real-world responsibility. | Our School Commitments (CAP-wide) Phone-free school day Teach digital safety and literacy Regular support for parents Staff model healthy tech use. |
Make your family’s commitment to delay smartphones (to Y9), delay social media (to 16), keep school‑time phone-free, and build more real-world independence, at a pace that suits your child.
Link to Voluntary Commitment Family Register
Guiding Digital Childhoods- Voluntary Family Register – Fill in form
A link to the Papaya talk.
Papaya Guiding Digital Childhoods Parent Webinar February 2026
