used in homework<\/a>, especially by teenagers, had increased substantially. It found that 48 per cent of affluent parents said their child regularly used AI for homework, compared with 31 per cent of those who were less well off.<\/p>\nOne mother of children aged 13 and 9 said: \u201cI used to go up to my grandma\u2019s and she had a set of encyclopaedias, and I would go through the alphabet, find it, and then read up on it, and then use that information. AI isn\u2019t that much different to that, apart from the fact that you can then take that information and ask AI to write it for you.\u201d<\/p>\n
The father of a 12-year-old said: \u201cIf you\u2019ve just got an easy option in front of you, then you just fire that off and go play Fortnite. It\u2019s not ideal but when everything else is so completely broken, using AI isn\u2019t actually as big a deal as you think it is.\u201d<\/p>\n
Some 39 per cent of parents said their child regularly or occasionally used AI tools such as ChatGPT or Grammarly to help with homework. This figure was up from 30 per cent in 2025. The proportion who said their child \u201cnever\u201d used AI for homework dropped from 41 per cent to 35 per cent.<\/p>\n
Fiona Forbes, founder of the Parent Voice Project, said: \u201cHow are schools supposed to understand pupils\u2019 learning if up to 50 per cent of homework is being completed by AI?<\/p>\n
\u201cParents clearly need guidance on this, and schools need to think extremely hard about what the rise of AI means for homework policies. Unless some deep thinking on this is undertaken at pace, the threat to homework as we understand it is surely existential.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mental health issues are surging among children. It emerged this week that children as young as six were…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":760367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[733,41255,8988,59,102,1906,50,5438,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-760366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-attention-deficit-hyperactivity-disorder-adhd","tag-autism","tag-gb","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-news","tag-standard","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760366","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=760366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/760367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=760366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=760366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=760366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}