FREE LAPTOPS By GOVERMENT

DJ-Ains.T · 29-01-2010, 04:56 PM

http://www.homeaccess.org.uk/Information-for-parents/

Are you eligible?
If you are a parent and think you are eligible for a Home Access grant simply call the Home Access Grant Helpline on 0333 200 1004* to get an application form.

Quick eligibility check
Have a look at the eligibility requirements below. You may be able to qualify for a Home Access grant if you:
• Answer yes to three questions in Section one
AND
• Answer yes to at least one question in Section two

Section One:
Are you a parent or guardian responsible for and living with a child…..
…who is in school years 3 to 9?
…who attends a state-maintained school in England full time**?
…who has not already had a computer from a Home Access Grant or similar programme, such as Computers for Pupils?

Section Two:
Do you receive at least one of the following?
• Free school meals for your child***
• Income based Jobseeker’s Allowance
• Income support
• Child Tax Credit but not Working Tax Credit and an income of less than £16,040
• Guaranteed Pension Credit (not Savings Credit)
• Income-based Employment Support Allowance
• Support under Part VI of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999

* Calls may be monitored or recorded to maintain high levels of security and quality of service. Calls to this number cost no more than a call to an 01 or 02 number and count towards inclusive minutes in the same way as 01 and 02 calls. These rules apply to calls from any type of line including mobile, BT, other fixed line or payphone.

** or whose place is paid for by their local authority or the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF). Home-schooled children do not qualify. State-maintained schools include: primary schools, secondary schools, middle schools, special schools, academies, city technology colleges, pupil referral units. State-maintained schools do not include: independent (private) schools and places at non-maintained special schools not funded by a local authority.

*** Children receiving Free School Meals under the national rules may be eligible for a Home Access Grant; however, children receiving free school meals as part of the pilots in Durham, Newham and Wolverhampton will need to provide additional supporting documents.

Copyright © 2010 Becta

xxMATTGxx · 29-01-2010, 05:09 PM

It's a good idea where the child doesn't have a computer to work at home with. I know one lad in my college group got one of these laptops for college work, I don't know why though. He already has a home computer he just needed Microsoft Office but gave him a laptop instead. :S

Catchy · 29-01-2010, 05:11 PM

What an awful idea... You don't need a laptop to do your work...... Jesus christ what is this world coming to.

xxMATTGxx · 29-01-2010, 05:11 PM

Originally Posted by Gay

What an awful idea... You don't need a laptop to do your work...... Jesus christ what is this world coming to.

Well considering my course is all typed up work and no written work, then obvious you do.

Catchy · 29-01-2010, 05:13 PM

Originally Posted by MattGarner

Well considering my course is all typed up work and no written work, then obvious you do.

Urm so is mine? Yet I get all my work done at COLLEGE and hardly ever do my work at home as I don't like doing at home. If I can do this I'm sure others can get off their arse and do it.

**Recursion** · 29-01-2010, 05:14 PM

Originally Posted by Gay

What an awful idea... You don't need a laptop to do your work...... Jesus christ what is this world coming to.

Going to Uni to do Computer Science, I would need some kind of computer to do my work...

Computers should be available to all, but not in this kind of way, not using tax payers money.

xxMATTGxx · 29-01-2010, 05:14 PM

Originally Posted by Gay

Urm so is mine? Yet I get all my work done at COLLEGE and hardly ever do my work at home as I don't like doing at home. If I can do this I'm sure others can get off their arse and do it.

Sadly not everyone is like that and work slower and have to do the work for homework, which has to be done on a computer. I can see where you are coming from but people do get homework and have to finish it off at home.