FOI Requet - School Digital Device Protections

Request 101003815910

With consideration of the requirements of the FOI Act, please can you kindly provide the following information:

1. Approximately how many children have 1-to-1 access to a council-supplied portable digital device (iPad/laptop/Chromebook), and if available, from what year or key stage does general 1-to-1 access start?

2. Approximately how many children in council schools do not have 1-to-1 access to a council-supplied portable digital device, and what is the ratio of devices to children for this group of children?

3. Are the following sites blocked on these council-supplied children's devices, and if so on what date was each blocked?:
a) Yahoo search (uk.search.yahoo.com)
b) Brave search (search.brave.com)
c) Wikipedia and Wikipedia images (wikimedia.org & upload.wikimedia.org)

4. Does the council maintain a risk assessment for digital device usage in council schools, if so please can you provide this?

Response 25-07-2025

1. The Council does not currently have a strategy for the provision of 1:1 devices.  The approved device to pupil ratios are 1:4 in Secondary schools and 1:6 in Primary schools.  Schools supplement device provision through devolved budgets.   

2. See above. School roll – approximately 12,000.

3. a) Blocked, date not held

b) Not blocked

c) No images or media files are accessible – all Wikimedia-related sites are rendered text-only

4. Not held. Information that is not held falls under Section 17 of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 - Information not held.