"Esther said her daughter had been "completely addicted" to her phone and that the initiative to lock phones away during the school day had proven successful at Brianna's old school in Warrington."
""As a parent, I really felt like I was failing. I didn't know what to do."
"Following Birchwood Community High School introducing pouches to lock phones last September, head teacher Emma Mills said the affect has been "immense"."
Brianna Ghey was murdered in February 2023 in a brutal stabbing; Scarlett Jenkinson and Eddie Ratcliffe were convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment with minimum terms of 22 and 20 years respectively. Brianna's mother, Esther, has called for a statutory smartphone ban in schools and has written to the education secretary and prime minister seeking funded pouches to lock phones during the school day. The #PhoneFreeEducation campaign has celebrity backing and urges government funding for schools. Esther reported Brianna was "completely addicted" to her phone, citing 120 safeguarding logs and 116 behaviour logs at Birchwood Community High School, where pouches have had an "immense" effect.
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