Children: Computers

(asked on 6th January 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, by what date he estimates children who require laptops to assist them with home learning will receive them.


Answered by
Nick Gibb Portrait
Nick Gibb
This question was answered on 11th January 2021

The Government is investing over £300 million to support access to remote education and online social care services, including securing over one million laptops and tablets for disadvantaged children and young people.

This includes over 560,000 laptops and tablets that have already been delivered to schools, trusts, and local authorities in 2020.

Laptops and tablets are owned by schools, trusts, or local authorities who can lend these to children and young people who need them most, during the current COVID-19 national restrictions.

From Saturday 2 January, all secondary schools have been able to order their full allocation of devices. As a result of orders placed since then, we dispatched over 100,000 laptops to schools by the end of last week.

By the end of this week, we expect to have delivered three quarters of a million devices.

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