“Schools will only then need to decide how to implement and enforce a ban across their school community and the Government must provide any support they require to do so effectively,” he said. <\/p>\n
“Some schools will need time to communicate with parents and pupils on implementation of a complete ban where this is not already in place.”<\/p>\n
Skills minister Baroness Smith of Malvern told the Lords on Monday: “We’ve listened to concerns about how we support headteachers in delivering on this policy and we have listened to Parliament.”<\/p>\n
In a statement, Laura Trott shadow Education Secretary said: “I am delighted we have forced Labour to see sense and U-turn. This is fantastic news for headteachers, parents and pupils across the country.<\/p>\n
“This is the right step for improving behaviour and raising attainment in our classrooms.”<\/p>\n
Liberal Democrat schools spokesperson Caroline Voaden said the government “must ensure all schools have the necessary support and funding to manage this transition”.<\/p>\n
In a statement, she added: “If schools decide to introduce pouches or lockers, the government should ensure they are resourced to do so.”<\/p>\n
Reform UK’s Education Spokesman Suella Braverman MP said: “The current guidance simply does not go far enough. A clear, enforceable ban to protect children is the right thing to do, for standards, parents, teachers and for the future of our children.”<\/p>\n
A Green Party spokesperson said they are “deeply concerned about the potential harms caused to children and young people by smartphone usage and social media.”<\/p>\n
A statement went on to say a “thorough consultation process with parents, teachers, and young people themselves, is key to creating effective solutions to the problems associated with mobile phone use in schools.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“Schools will only then need to decide how to implement and enforce a ban across their school community…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":544957,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[2306,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-544956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-mobile","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}