The Guardian view on mobile phones: schools are better without them | Editorial

The call to ban phones from the playground is rightly popular. But schools will need resources to do it properlyWhen a minister in this government stumbles on a policy that is both popular and good, it’s newsworthy. Matt Hancock, the digital minister, has suggested that schools ban the use of mobile phones by their pupils. Amanda Spielman, the head of Ofsted, agrees. In France, the Macron government has put forward legislation that will ban the use of phones in all primary and middle schoo