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Hundreds of Thousands More Laptops to Support Disadvantaged Pupils Learn at Home

Date Enacted: January 2021

As “[p]art of the Get Help with Technology Programme,” an additional 300,000 laptops and tablets, in addition to the already “700,000 laptops and tablets . . .  delivered to schools to date” were to be distributed to support “disadvantaged children and young people who need the most help with access to technology through the pandemic.” This program “sits alongside strengthened minimum standards for remote learning, with schools now expected to offer pupils online lessons and a set number of hours of high-quality remote education for pupils – increased from the government’s previous minimum expectations.”