Inclusion policies and process for children in care and care leavers

1. Does your authority have current digital inclusion policies relating to children in care and care-leavers? If so, please let me know where this information is published or send me a copy.

No

2. Does your authority’s local offer to care-leavers or pathway planning process contain specific reference to the risk of digital exclusion among care-experienced young people? If so, please let me know where this information is published or send me a copy.

Not currently, but we are looking at this within the review of our plans

3. Has your authority been involved with initiatives to provide digital media (for example, laptops, iPads or similar digital technology, dongles or other internet alternative) to children in local authority care or care-leavers since March 2020, in order to address the impact of the pandemic on digital exclusion? If so, please let me know where this information is published or send me a copy.

We provided laptops as per the Department of Education scheme