Dutch political party D66 is advocating for a minimum age of 15 for social media platforms such as TikTok, Instagram, and Snapchat. “Tech giants are harming children’s health because social media is deliberately designed to be addictive,” said D66 parliamentarian Hanneke van der Werf, according to RTL." “The Netherlands doesn’t let cigarette manufacturers determine and enforce age restrictions,” Van der …
The Dutch advertising standards authorities has ticked off environmental campaign group Greenpeace for exaggerating the impact of eating meat in a ready-to-use package of lessons aimed at primary school children, Dutch media have reported. The lessons, which state that “animals eat 50% of the harvest, so there is less food for people”, should be seen as advertising because they put …
At least 4,000 children with autism are not currently attending school. “Many changing teachers in the classroom is very difficult for children with autism.” But parents also said that regular schools do not do enough to meet the needs of autistic children. “Children often stay at home because they get a kind of burnout at school,” Wevers said. “These children …
Poor results of the first "normal" test week of this academic year show that kids are still having a hard time getting back into the swing of things at school. "The test period in November is usually not the best of the year," rector Jan-Paul Beekman of the Spinoza Lyceum in Amsterdam said to Trouw. Rector Wim van de Eshof …
The Ministry of Public Health has at least 26 million rapid coronavirus tests, also called antigen tests, in storage at its testing service, and that number is growing as millions of tests are received every week, Trouw reports based on its own research. The government planned to use rapid tests to reopen society somewhat, with the idea of testing people …
