Young people are using their mobile phones to access their work remotely as they do not have the devices they need for studying, it has emerged. Assistant principal Trish Boyd, from Belfast Model School for Girls, said research carried out into how their pupils are coping with home schooling found that many are struggling without the devices they need for proper access to online studying. "We have found that a substantial number of children either don't have a digital device or access to the internet, or even when there is a digital device there are multiple children in the house," she said, speaking on Good Morning Ulster.