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image captionSome families do not have access to appropriate devices or internet access, a charity warned
More than 35,000 extra laptops will be provided to children in Wales as the government wants no child or family left behind with homeschooling.
It will mean 133,000 devices would have been given out since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic by Welsh Government to help children learn at home.
The Welsh Government said it has also worked with local authorities to provide 11,000 MiFi devices to help those without internet get online and 10,000 re-purposed devices to access online learning.
image captionMost children will learn from home until at least February half-term, unless there is a big drop in Covid cases
Children home-schooling denied laptops by means testing
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image captionSome families do not have access to appropriate devices or internet access, a charity warms
Children without access to a laptop are being denied support for home-schooling by means testing, a charity says.
But Child Poverty Action Group in Wales said some schools were only offering help to children on free school meals.
The Welsh Government said it had distributed over 74,000 devices to local authorities and 58,000 more were expected within weeks.
Ellie Harwood from the charity told BBC Radio Wales: We ve been hearing that not everyone who needs these devices has been able to get them.