FOI/202000066959 · FOI · unclear
Laptops issued to children and young people due to school closures: FOI release
Information requested
1. Further to Parliamentary Question S5W-30015 in the name of Alexander Stewart MSP, and the subsequent answer given by John Swinney MSP on July 1 2020, how many of the 25,000 laptops have been issued to children and young people? 2. Can this be broken down by (i) The number given to each Local Authority and (ii) The date in which they were issued to the local authority
Response
1. Local authorities are making local arrangements for management of devices and for allocation of devices to individual pupils, in line with their plans for school reopening. As schools only reopened from 11 August, we do not as yet have detailed information from every local authority regarding the number of devices that are now in the hands of pupils. 2. Eighteen local authorities chose to take up the offer of Chromebook devices purchased by Scottish Government. By 14 August 2020, approximately 20,000 Chromebooks have been shipped by the supplier to local authorities. The remainder will have been shipped by 21 August. The breakdown of devices per local authority is shown in the table below:
Local Authority Number of devices Aberdeen City 1447 Aberdeenshire 2725 Angus 1111 Argyll & Bute 800 Clackmannanshire 674 East Ayrshire 1366 East Dunbartonshire 815 East Lothian 407 East Renfrewshire 590 Fife 4139 Glasgow City 300 Highland 3248 Midlothian 1235 North Ayrshire 750 South Ayrshire 1200 South Lanarkshire 1792 Stirling 1528 West Dunbartonshire 358
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