Covid-19: Lockdown could lose a generation of young people
By Nic Rigby and Shaun Peel
BBC Politics East
image captionThe government said it was providing thousands of laptops for pupils
A whole generation of young people could be lost to education during the Covid-19 lockdown because they do not have access to digital learning, a leading charity warned.
Schools have been closed to most children, meaning remote-learning at home with lessons via the internet.
Rae Tooth, of the Villiers Park Education Trust, is concerned about children without computers.
The government said it was providing thousands of laptops for pupils.
Ms Tooth, chief executive of the Trust, based at Foxton near Cambridge, told BBC Politics East that digital poverty hits the ability of children to learn if they have no access to the internet, (or can only access if via smartphones with small screens).