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'I've banned my daughter from having a smartphone - kids need to be protected'
EXCLUSIVE: As the debate around the use of mobile phones by children continues to rage OK! spoke to one mum who has refused to bow to pressure to buy her daughter a device
interview, X Factor supremo Simon Cowell revealed he wouldn't let son Eric have access to a phone. Her 16-year-old daughter was killed in February last year by Eddie Ratcliffe and Scarlett Jenkinson, then both 15, who plotted the murder via vile messages on social media. Thirty years ago I was a nanny and Montessori teacher in London and I was concerned even then about the amount of screentime that children were having at that stage - before they all had ‘phones.
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