Best Schools - Education Secretary Damian Hinds is calling on social media influencers to take responsibility for t

Speaking out on #StopCyberBullyingDay, Damian Hinds has called on social media influencers to help in the fight against negative body image by making sure their social media content is less appearance focused and ensuring there is more transparency about how social media photos are edited.

These comments comes as latest data 40 per cent of teenagers said that things their friends have said have made them worry about their body image as well as occurrences of hurtful information being posted online is more frequent in England compared to other countries.

14 per cent of headteachers in England saying that parents or pupils reported hurtful information being posted online about pupils at least weekly, compared to the OECD average of 2 per cent.

From 2020, the Government is introducing compulsory health education in every state funded school, alongside compulsory relationships education for all primary pupils and relationships and sex education for all secondary pupils in England.

This will mean that every child will learn about internet safety and harms – including the unrealistic expectation of body image and how people may present a specific image of their life online - alongside the importance of mental and physical wellbeing.

Hundreds of special needs pupils 'squeezed' out of school

More than 1,500 children with special educational needs and disabilities (Send) are without a school place in England, with some waiting up to two years for provision.

The figures, collated by Newsnight, cover 46 English councils (25%), which suggests the real figure may be higher.

One mother told the programme her son had been "squeezed out" of school as a "quick cost-cutting solution".

The government said responsibility lay with local authorities.

Local authorities do not routinely publish data but a series of Freedom of Information requests made over the past six months show 1,580 children with education and health care plans (EHCPs), which used to be called statements of special educational needs, have no education provision.

The highest numbers came from Kent (348) and Surrey (93).