Local schemes in Stratford, Alcester and Shipston aim to provide laptops to families facing digital poverty during lockdown
| Updated: 10:36, 22 January 2021
A DIGITAL divide has arisen among schoolchildren between those who can access online learning during lockdown and those who canât.
Ofcom claims that up to 1.8m children in the UK do not have access to a laptop, desktop PC or tablet, and has warned that already disadvantaged poorer children face missing out on vital education.
Tom Print outside his PrinTech shop in Alcester with his son Theo, aged four.Photo: Mark Williamson.A2/1/21/9404. (43947429)
Across the Stratford district, heroic efforts are under way by people desperate to offer the lifeline of a laptop to families who need them.