Increasing your mobile data allowance - Department for Education (DfE)

Do you need to increase your data allowance on your mobile device so your child can access their remote learning? 

To help children access remote education if their face-to-face education is currently being disrupted, there is a scheme available to temporarily increase data allowances for mobile phone users on certain networks. 

This scheme is open to children and young people who:-

• don’t have access to a fixed broadband connection.
• cannot afford the additional data needed to access educational resources or social care services.
• have access to a mobile device that uses a participating network.
• are facing disruption to their face-to-face education, or have been advised not to attend school

This offer is currently available from EE, 02, Sky, SMARTY, Tesco Mobile, Three, Virgin Mobile.  What data someone will get depends on their mobile network. Some networks can’t offer data to Pay-as-you-go (PAYG) customers.  

Please note you will be advised if there is an offer you can use (or if there is no offer available), the details of the offer:-

• You will receive a text message when their free data has been activated.
• You will be notified when their free data will end.
• This data can be used when tethering a mobile phone to another device for internet access.
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Please click on the following link to access our Google Form in order that we may provide the DfE with your information. 

https://forms.gle/37G5Uf8ejp1BqxVN7

This form will close at 3.30 pm on Tuesday 12th January 2021.

Details of the offer from each network can also be found here: https://get-help-with-tech.education.gov.uk/guide-to-collecting-mobile-information/telling-about-offer