Children from low-income families can benefit from a free computer and internet access to enhance their home learning environment, thanks to a new Government initiative.
Working on a first-come-first-served basis, the £300m Home Access Programme is designed to benefit both parents and children. It will provide free computers to 270,000 low-income households across England over the next two years.
The scheme forms part of the Government's drive to close the digital and educational divide between rich and poor, and its pledge to ensure that every pupil has access to a personalised online learning space.
Government figures suggest that as many as one million children are without internet access at home, despite surveys suggesting that 29 per cent of children have a computer in their bedroom and spend around 1.4 hours online a day.
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