Pupil-facing educational technology
Pupil-facing educational technology expenditure by the local authority Please confirm the total amount spent by the local authority in each of your last three complete financial years on: Pupil-facing 1:1 devices and hardware supplied to schools, for example iPads, Chromebooks, laptops and other related hardware for 1:1 use by pupils ('hardware expenditure'); and Purchase costs, subscriptions or licences for digital learning applications or platforms for use by pupils ('software expenditure'). If you are unable to disaggregate hardware expenditure and/or software expenditure from the data that you hold, please provide such figures as you are able to provide for the nearest approximation to those categories and explain in your response to which categories of expenditure they relate. Please also provide the equivalent expenditure figures for the following areas over the same three years: * Sports equipment for pupil use * Musical instruments for pupil use * Books for pupil use Where exact figures are not held, please provide the nearest available budget or figure and explain what expenditure it covers.