ministers had already committed to introducing a ban last year but many schools already have their own restrictions in place and there are questions over how much difference this new advice will make. yunus mulla reports. i need that one too. good friends and in the first year of high school. but with year seven, there s also more time on their mobiles and screen time away from home. i can t find my friends at school because we normally have different. sometimes we have different lessons. sometimes i need to contact my parents. perhaps no surprise to find talk of taking those devices away during school hours hasn t gone down well. like when you re trying to learn, it can be distracting. but like, i don t really see the harm at, like, lunchtime or break. i think it would, like, take away your freedom when you needed to call your parents or talk about something you don t know how to talk to a teacher about. for parent olivia, her daughter having a mobile away from home is reass