This one-day national summit brings together school leaders, safeguarding professionals, digital experts, and policy thinkers to explore effective strategies for managing mobile phone use, addressing online harms, and fostering a digital culture prioritising wellbeing and safety.

Mobile phones are everywhere and so are the risks. From viral TikTok challenges to encrypted group chats, anonymous apps to rising concerns around incel culture, extremism and digital misogyny, schools are facing a rapidly evolving safeguarding landscape. The pressure to act decisively, and wisely, has never been greater.

In the wake of the hit TV series Adolescence, public scrutiny has intensified around how schools respond to the complex online world their pupils inhabit. Young people are connected 24/7, but who is helping them navigate the noise, pressures and dangers of digital life?

Beyond the Screen is a one-day national summit created to address these urgent challenges head-on. Delivered in association with The Bridge and Schools Week, the event brings together school leaders, safeguarding professionals, digital experts and policy thinkers to unpack what really works when it comes to managing mobile phone use, tackling online harms, and fostering a digital culture that prioritises wellbeing and safety.

Taking place at the start of the new term, this timely event is designed to equip you with fresh insights, clear strategies and practical solutions to help you lead with confidence in an increasingly digital world.

Whether you’re rethinking your mobile phone policy, grappling with toxic online influences, or seeking clarity in a fast-moving space, this summit offers honest, expert guidance from those at the forefront of digital safeguarding.