The government will spend £300m to provide free laptop with a broadband connection for the families that can not afford to get it.
The nationwide rollout of the home access programme will benefit over 270,000 families, said the Prime Minister Gordon Brown in an education forum in Westminster today.
Having a broadband connection at home will help the parents to stay in touch with chidren’s schools, management and to access the school reports online.
“So the mother who’s worried about her son struggling with his reading can find out more about how she can help, or the dad who works long hours and can’t make a parents’ evening can keep in touch with his daughter’s progress, at whatever time of the day or night that he’s free.” added Mr.Brown.
There were over six million low income families the UK that do not have a broadband connection at their homes, according to the Digital inclusion champion, Martha Lane Fox.
Digital Britain programme aims to provide every UK household with a 2Mb broadband line by 2012 while the largest ADSL broadband provider, BT will connect more than 40% of UK homes with a faster, fibre based broadband network that promises up to 40Mbps, just before the London Olympics starts in the same year.
The report from National Statistics (ONS) in the middle of 2009 showed that 63 % of UK homes (16.5m) were connected by broadband and the home broadband connectivity has more than doubled since 2006.
“So the mother who’s worried about her son struggling with his reading can find out more about how she can help, or the dad who works long hours and can’t make a parents’ evening can keep in touch with his daughter’s progress, at whatever time of the day or night that he’s free.”
-and so the taxpayer can pay for the scrounger to sit on Facebook all day.
as normal I am Hard working trying to make ends meets
this country sees fit to take money from workers
to reward so called low income people which most have no
intention of working.Many I do not blame because working seems to
be a mugs game.Take out tax and ni from my £14,000 a yaer
I take home about £10,000 out of which I pay council tax
(not to mention medical expenses if I unforunately cannot work)
I feel I’d be better of as a low income earner or unemployed
I agree, the tax payer again suffers. I work full-time, study a law degree part-time at uni, am a single mother trying to improve the quality of life for my son and I. I get very little help from the government, barely enough tax credits to pay for school dinners and transport. I am one of the 10% of NIHE tenants who actually pay rent and have to suffer at the drunken antics of my neighbours who can afford to drink all day, and no doubt will benefit from a free laptop when I have to travel to the local library for my studies. Its about time the government rewarded those who contribute to the country instead of draining it into recession.
Its a bloody joke,once again all the people who don’t work get the best out of life,I bet half of them get the free laptop and sell it for bloody drugs,yes i am a tax payer.
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