Technology

Questions on Social Media were asked within the Young Life and Times (YLT) Survey in 2025.
Questions on Technology were asked within the Kids' Life and Times (KLT) Survey in 2009, 2013 and 2024.

ARK Resources

• Screens, Safety and Social Media, by Michelle Butler, Dirk Schubotz and Martina McKnight explores data from the 2025 YLT survey and the 2024 KLT survey.
• Children Online: Access, Wellbeing and Bullying (Research Update 162) by Katrina Lloyd, Martina McKnight and Paula Devine focuses on data from the 2024 KLT survey.
• A seminar with a series of talks on caring and technology, including on supporting caring, GPS and dementia care, and telehealth, was organised by Carers NI and the ARK Ageing Programme in 2015.
• Online and safe (Research Update 88), by Paula Devine and Katrina Lloyd uses data from the 2013 KLT survey.
• The Net Generation (Research Update 62), by Katrina Lloyd and Paula Devine is based on data from the 2009 KLT survey.

Links

• Keeping children and young people safe: an Online Safety Strategy for Northern Ireland
  2020-2025, and associated action plan, was published in 2021 by the Department of Health on behalf of the Northern Ireland Executive.

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