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Member

Speaking in the House of Lords on 23 June 2025

Debate

Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill

Contribution

While there may be other educational reasons, which I do not have time to go into, why teachers might want to have pupils able to use these powerful pocket computers for learning, it is for the reasons of media literacy that I particularly urge support for my amendment to include educational reasons as an exemption from phone bans. We need better digital citizens who are media and AI savvy. We cannot achieve this without phones being allowed in classrooms for those lessons.

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