Are children being harmed by wireless internet?

Children's health is being put at risk by the rush to introduce wireless networks in schools, a teachers' leader warned today.

Trade union Voice, previously the Professional Association of Teachers, called for a moratorium on new classrooms being fitted with wi-fi. 

But architects suggested wireless networks were likely to become increasingly important for schools.

Voice general secretary Philip Parkin said: 'I don't know whether wi-fi is safe but there is an accumulation of evidence that suggests it can have a significant impact on growing children, in particular the development of the nervous system.'

He said research was under way, adding: 'Our view would be that nobody should move in any significant way until the results of that review are known.'

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