Submitted by Jason Gillman on Sunday 13th December 2020
Published on Thursday 31st December 2020
Current status: Closed
Closed: Wednesday 30th June 2021
Signatures: 165
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Access ~ Children ~ Covid ~ Covid-19 ~ Covid-19 pandemic ~ date ~ Digital ~ Education ~ Ensure ~ Free School Meals ~ fund ~ Home Learning ~ Internet ~ Laptop ~ learning ~ Pandemic ~ School closures ~ school meals ~ Schools ~ Secondary ~ Secondary schools ~ UK ~ Young people
Provide disadvantaged children with a connected laptop to access home learning
The Government should ensure that children have unrestricted personal use of an up to date, internet-connected computer with a full keyboard, at least from KS4 (the school year they turn 15). Government should urgently fund this for disadvantaged students such as those entitled to free school meals.
As schools move learning online in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, digital inclusion is more important than ever. Already vulnerable young people should not be further disadvantaged by school closures. In UK state secondary schools, there were 468,780 pupils known to be eligible for and claiming free school meals in January 2019. These children and young people may not have access to adequate equipment and connectivity, and should not be excluded from their education.
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