Campaign to bar under-14s from having smartphones signed by 100,000 parents

Surrey was region of UK with most sign-ups for Smartphone Free Childhood's parent pact, launched last year

An online campaign committing parents to bar their children from owning a smartphone until they are at least 14 has garnered 100,000 signatures in the six months since its launch.

The Smartphone Free Childhood campaign launched a parent pact" in September in which signatories committed to withhold handsets from their children until at least the end of year 9, and to keep them off social media until they are 16.