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Lucy Powell was giving interviews this morning in part to publicise an announcement from the Department for Education beefing up guidance on mobile phones in schools in England. As the BBC reports, schools are already supposed to be phone-free, but in many places this just means they operate a “not seen, not heard” policy, allowing pupils to retain their phones in their bags.
The new guidance, which will come into force in September next year, will require schools to adopt a tougher approach. The DfE said:
Schools should be a place that provides a clear break from those pressures, protecting the school day as a time to learn, connect and engage with others.
While most schools set out that phones should be not seen and not heard, only 16% of secondary pupils say phone rules are followed all of the time, and with the rapid increase in technology take-up and emerging evidence, pupils, schools and parents need more clarity.
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