Latest government figures show that 1,229,752 laptops and tablets have been handed out during the current academic year to vulnerable and disadvantaged pupils who cannot attend school due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
But this is 4,248 short of the government’s target of delivering 1.3m devices to pupils through the £400m scheme.
A Department for Education spokeswoman said that “there is a small proportion that have yet to be ordered by schools but are available to them”.
According to the DfE, all 1.3m devices are available to order and “we are in contact with those schools, colleges and LAs that have not yet done so to encourage them to order their allocated devices”.
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