Government launches crackdown on mobile phones in schools

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : Schools will receive new guidance on prohibiting mobile phone use during the school day.
43% : Schools will be supported to prohibit mobile phone use with examples of different approaches including banning phones from the school premises, handing in phones on arrival at school, and keeping phones securely locked away at school.
41% : Schools have seen success in prohibiting mobile phones through tactics such as introducing lockers with charging points for students to ensure they don't come into classrooms.
34% : Education Secretary Gillian Keegan said:Schools are places for children to learn and mobile phones are, at a minimum, an unwanted distraction in the classroom.

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