Pupils will no longer be allowed to keep phones in their pockets or bags when Labour‘s new ban in schools comes in, ministers have said.
Many head teachers currently operate a ‘not seen, not heard’ policy, allowing pupils to keep phones with them in lessons as long as they are switched to silent.
However, in future schools will have to make pupils hand in phones for the whole school day and keep them in secure storage.
The move was revealed in a debate in the Commons today, following Labour’s U-turn on an original decision not to legislate on phones in schools.
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