When a school introduces a mobile phone policy, the costs that get signed off are the obvious ones. Pouches, lockable wallets, lockers, and a line in the budget for replacing them each year. Those costs are planned, approved and understood. The cost that never makes it into the business case is the one that arrives […]
For most school leaders, the phone question is no longer whether. It is how. From 29 June 2026, Section 36 of the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Act 2026 gives the Department for Education’s mobile phone guidance the force of law. The default expectation is clear: schools should be mobile phone free environments, with anything else […]
Going phone free is the easy part. Keeping it phone free is where the real work begins. The true cost of phone free schools is not the policy itself. It is everything that happens after the phones go away. Most schools that adopt a phone free policy do so with the right intentions and the […]
There is a clear answer to why every school is going phone free, and from 29 June 2026 it is backed by law. In the last two years, something has shifted in UK education. From small primary schools to the country’s largest Multi Academy Trusts, leaders are reaching the same conclusion: smartphones do not belong […]
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