Schools ‘running at 70 per cent capacity’ as headteachers question government laptop scheme Fiona Simpson Thursday, January 7, 2021
Schools are inundated with requests from parents seeking spaces for vulnerable children as concerns rise over the effectiveness of the government’s free laptop scheme.
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Headteachers have expressed anger at an inability to access the promised government laptops for pupils remote learning.
All UK schools went into lockdown on Tuesday, but had been reassured by the government that a million laptops would be made available to those in need of help getting online.
However, when primary school heads tried to access the online ordering system for the laptops on the gov.uk website, they hit a brick wall.
A pop-up message told them it was not possible - and they should simply wait to be contacted.
Michael Tidd, headteacher at East Preston Junior School in West Sussex, described it as very frustrating .