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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Christopher McKeon

Tories bid to ban phones from classrooms as schools Bill returns to Commons

The Conservatives will seek to press the Government to ban mobile phones in schools as the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill returns to the Commons on Monday.

The party has put down an amendment to Labour’s landmark legislation that would require schools to ban pupils using or carrying phones during the school day, arguing that such policies boost attainment.

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