The Department for Education have announced a pilot offer to increase mobile data allowances for children and young people.
https://get-help-with-tech.education.gov.uk/about-increasing-mobile-data
This scheme is open to children and young people who:
- • don’t have access to a fixed broadband connection
- • cannot afford the additional data needed to access educational resources or social care services
- • have access to a mobile device that uses a participating network
- • are facing disruption to their face-to-face education, or have been advised not to attend school
This could cover all of our pupils depending on their network!
To request extra mobile data on your behalf, we will need to collect the following information:
- • the account holder’s name
- • their mobile number (a number beginning with ‘07’)
- • their mobile network
- • whether they pay monthly or pay as they go
Once we have this information:
- • we can tell you if there is an offer you can use (or if there is no offer available)
- • we can tell you the details of that offer
- • You will receive a text message when their free data has been activated if the offer is available to you and when your free data will end
- • This data can be used when tethering a mobile phone to another device for internet access