Although this is an impressive number, the problem is by no means solved. A significant portion of the UK’s young people do not have the digital equipment or data to study outside of the classroom. This problem, like so many, has always been here, and the pandemic has simply exacerbated and shone a spotlight on it.
Nacro is a national Further Education provider and each year we work with around 3000 disadvantaged learners. Nearly half of our learners have some kind of identified learning disability and 70 per cent at least one or more factors of social disadvantage. At the beginning of the pandemic we asked them if they had a device they could use for learning. Half didn’t have a laptop or tablet, others were sharing devices or didn’t have data or Wi-Fi. 20 per cent also didn’t have access to a smartphone.
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