Your back to school policy essentials

[.style-intro] A toolkit for teachers and school leaders to kick-start a smartphone-free academic year. [.style-intro]

Governments across the UK are strengthening their guidance on mobile phones in schools. For many school leaders, that will mean reviewing, amending or implementing an updated policy.

This toolkit pulls together guidance and editable tools to support your school’s smartphone-free journey, whatever stage you are at and wherever you are in the UK.

• The policy expectations where you are – What the guidance says in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, and what it means for your school.
• Choosing the right policy for your context – The approaches schools are using, and how to decide which one fits yours.
• Editable resources to communicate your policy – Letters and newsletter templates to set out and reinforce your expectations with families at the start of term.
• Inspiring change across your community – How to connect your policy to the wider shift towards delaying smartphone ownership with the SFC Parent Pact.
• Beyond the first term – Ways to sustain the conversation with families beyond the start of term.