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<p>The Government is investing over £400 million to support access to remote education
and online social care services, including securing 1.3 million laptops and tablets
for disadvantaged children and young people.</p><p>As of Monday 01 February 2021,
over 927,000 laptops and tablets had been delivered to schools, academy trusts and
local authorities by the Department to support children to access remote education
during the COVID-19 outbreak. Numbers of devices delivered to date by the programme
is published regularly at <a href="https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/laptops-and-tablets-data/2021-week-5"
target="_blank">https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/laptops-and-tablets-data/2021-week-5</a>.</p><p>For
supplying devices to schools, the Department has signed contracts with Computacentre
and XMA to supply a variety of device types according to the needs of schools and
end users. Unit costs of specific devices distributed by the programme are not published
as these are commercially sensitive.</p>
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