18 October 2026 Smartphone Free Childhood: What It Means Once Your Child Starts Secondary School What Smartphone Free Childhood asks parents to do, why most children have a phone by 11 anyway, and how secondary schools keep the school day phone-free. Read article
17 October 2026 Lockable Phone Pouch: How Schools Use Them, From the Government’s Own Case Study What a lockable phone pouch is, how schools use one under the statutory phone ban, and what the DfE case study of a 1,300-pupil secondary using pouches says. Read article
17 October 2026 Metal Lockers for Schools: What to Look For in a Steel School Locker Metal lockers for schools: why steel, why sloping tops, what size, which lock, and where they can go. What to check before a school chooses steel lockers. Read article
16 October 2026 Outsourcing in Schools: What Schools Buy In, 15 Years of Government Figures Outsourcing in schools, in Department for Education figures: agency supply teachers up two thirds, consultancy almost tripled, and the services most schools now completely outsource. Read article
16 October 2026 What Age Do Children Get a Phone? UK Figures by Age, From Ofcom What age do children get a phone in the UK? Ofcom 2025/26: 56% of 10-year-olds have their own phone, 83% of 11-year-olds and 95% of 14-year-olds. Figures by age and at school. Read article
12 October 2026 Phone Pouch Unlocker: What Opens a Locked Pouch A phone pouch unlocker is the magnetic base that opens a locked pouch. What it is, why an ordinary magnet won't do, where schools put them and how many. Read article
10 October 2026 What Happens in an Emergency at a Phone-Free Event? How the Pouch Comes Off in a Second How a guest at a phone-free event gets to their phone in an emergency: the staffed help point, the base station that opens the pouch in about a second, who gets an exemption at the door, and how an organiser plans it like first aid. Read article
10 October 2026 Can a Venue Make You Put Your Phone in a Pouch? What the Rules Are and What You Can Do Whether a UK venue, promoter or host can require phone pouches as a condition of entry, what happens if you say no, where the phone goes, and how you get it back if you need it. Read article
6 October 2026 School Locker Policy: What It Should Say, With a Template You Can Copy What a school locker policy needs to cover, who can open a pupil's locker, what happens with lost codes, damage and the end of the year, and a template written for a keyless locker scheme. Read article
30 September 2026 Can You Put Lockers in a School Corridor? What the Fire Safety Guidance Says Whether lockers can go in a school corridor, the minimum escape route width of 1,050mm, why the guidance asks for non-combustible lockers, and how to check a corridor before ordering. Read article
