Cumbria’s schools are continuing their appeal to local people and businesses to donate laptops for use by school pupils who are now learning from home due to lockdown.
The Cumbria Alliance of System Leaders (CASL), which brings together senior school leaders from around the county, issued the appeal in January after research by schools showed around 1,500 children and young people do not have access at home to the ICT equipment they need to fully participate in home learning.
The campaign has so far delivered around half of this target, but CASL are urging any other local people or businesses that may be able to help, to get in touch, and help meet the target as soon as possible.