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Shadow minister Kevin Hollinrake calls on Conservative-run councils to ban the use of mobile phones by children in schools, saying it is part of a wider strategy to lobby the government to ban phone use generally for under-16s. Report by Keechl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00Well, it doesn't happen all the time. We're going to make sure it does. We think our young
00:04people need a break from smartphones and school's the obvious place to have that break. This
00:08is part of a wider strategy though. We want to completely ban social media completely
00:14from children under the age of 16. We're asking the government to support an amendment this
00:18week in parliament to do that. We don't think it is going to support that. We think that's
00:22important. But as an interim measure, we're asking all our councils, conservative councils
00:26and councils up and down the country to convene a discussion with local schools to make sure
00:32they implement a complete smartphone ban from schools as soon as possible.
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