"The government is set to make mobile phone bans in schools statutory, introducing an amendment to the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill in the House of Lords. A Department for Education spokesperson said the change will formalise existing guidance on phone restrictions in educational settings."
"We have been consistently clear that mobile phones have no place in schools, and the majority already prohibit them. This amendment makes existing guidance statutory, giving legal force to what schools are already doing in practice."
"This bill is widely recognised as the biggest piece of child safeguarding legislation in decades, with critical measures like laws to crack down on profiteering in children's social care and a new unique identifier to stop children falling through the cracks."
The government is introducing statutory mobile phone bans in schools through an amendment to the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill. This change formalizes existing guidance that prohibits mobile phones in educational settings. A Department for Education spokesperson emphasized that mobile phones have no place in schools, and the amendment gives legal force to current practices. This initiative is part of a broader effort to strengthen child safeguarding legislation, which includes measures to address profiteering in children's social care and improve oversight.
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