Published:
1:35 PM May 13, 2021
More than 10,000 pupils at Norfolk schools have benefitted from government Covid laptop and tablet scheme.
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More than 10,000 Norfolk school pupils have benefited from a government scheme to provide digital devices to help with home learning during the pandemic.
Data from the Department for Education (DfE) shows 1,313,449 laptops and tablets have been delivered or dispatched to support children to access remote education since the start of the pandemic.
Just over 5,000 digital devices, which also includes 4G routers and free mobile data, have gone to local authority schools in Norfolk.
Headteachers have called for IT support for pupils to continue after the pandemic.