Almost close to everybody gets a mobile phone now at least between Year 6 and Year 7... The Government doesn't tell parents when is the appropriate time to do that. These are decisions for families, they are decisions for parents in bringing up their children.
Last month, the Department for Education (DfE) published guidance, which is non-statutory, which instructed headteachers on how to ban the use of phones, not only during lessons, but during break and lunch periods as well. When asked whether the Government would consider making a mobile ban in schools statutory, Mr Hinds told MPs: We want to create this new norm and
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