{"id":18464,"date":"2025-03-28T14:31:57","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T03:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/domremy\/?post_type=article&#038;p=18464"},"modified":"2025-03-28T14:31:57","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T03:31:57","slug":"scs-notices-changes-to-access-to-social-media-for-all-students","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/domremy\/article\/scs-notices-changes-to-access-to-social-media-for-all-students\/","title":{"rendered":"SCS Notices: Changes to access to social media for all students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government has recently ratified the Online Safety Amendment (Social Media Minimum Age) Bill 2024, which will amend the Online Safety Act 2021. This new legislation is expected to come into force in December 2025. Sydney Catholic Schools is committed to child safety and effective learning and accordingly will be implementing a number of measures immediately, to restrict access by students\u00a0 to unauthorised educational applications and by blocking social media access on the school network.<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Important: Sydney Catholic Schools Executive Director&#8217;s Letter to Parents<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Parents will this week have received a copy of the <a href=\"https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2025\/03\/letter-linked-here-from-Danielle-Cronin-Executive-Director-Sydney-Catholic-Schools.-.pdf\">letter linked here from Danielle Cronin, Executive Director, Sydney Catholic Schools. <\/a>We encourage parents to read the letter about the measures which are to come into effect immediately together with the <a href=\"https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2025\/03\/linked-flyer.pdf\">linked flyer.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2025\/03\/Social-media-access_newsletter_20032025.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18467\" src=\"https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2025\/03\/Social-media-access_newsletter_20032025.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1448\" height=\"2048\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government has recently ratified the Online Safety Amendment (Social Media Minimum Age) Bill 2024, which will amend the Online Safety Act 2021. This new legislation is expected to come into force in December 2025. Sydney Catholic Schools is committed to child safety and effective learning and accordingly will be implementing a number of measures [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","class_list":["post-18464","article","type-article","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/domremy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/18464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/domremy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/domremy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/domremy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/domremy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}