
Working-class communities need a much deeper response to educational inequality.
Within the last 24-hours the UK government has announced that they will provide free use of laptops and tablets to selected groups of ‘disadvantaged’ pupils during the coronavirus lockdown, with the aim of preventing a further widening of the educational attainment gap. This is a welcome move and one that presents a whole host of questions. The most immediate and obvious question… How quickly are we going to see delivery of this equipment to those who need it the most? Within