While a recent report by the Commons science and technology select committee flagged a lack of high-quality research into the effects of screen time on young people, much of the research focuses on what is happening during screen time not on what screen time prevents.
While children are occupied with electronic games they are neither physically nor socially active. Screen play is very different from real play in terms of physical interaction, imagination and creativity.
Research investigating children’s physical skills in primary schools suggests that there has been a declining trend in maturity in children’s physical skills over the last 15 years, with children with the least mature physical skills performing less well in measures of educational attainment.
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