In his keynote speech to the Labour Party Conference in Manchester this afternoon Gordon Brown unveiled a £300m scheme aimed at ensuring every child in the country has access to a PC and connectivity at home.
There are currently 1.4 million school pupils who don’t have internet access from home. The Prime Minister said “We want to enable all families to use the internet to link back to their children’s school….we will fund over a million extra families to get online, on the way to our ambition of Britain leading the world with more of our people than any other major economy able to access the internet and broadband.”.
The allowances will be worth up to £700 per household to pay for broadband connectivity, technical support and equipment.
