A Crewe and Nantwich campaign to provide free laptops for schoolchildren during home learning has smashed through the target of 100 devices.
People across the area have donated old devices and a team of volunteers have been collected, repairing, upgrading and preparing them to be handed out to families who need them.
Computer businesses in Nantwich and Crewe are helping children connect with online school learning by repairing donated laptops.
The Laptop Shop, on Hospital Street, and Nantwich Computer Consultant Nic Bunting are taking in donated devices so they can be fixed on passed on to youngsters without them.
Officers in Cheshire are using a new tool to protect vulnerable residents from telephone scammers.
The call blocker devices have been used in Nantwich as well as other towns like Crewe, Alsager, Knutsford and Chester.
Labour councillors have offered to support Crewe and Nantwich school headteachers in the fight to secure adequate equipment for home learning during lockdown.
They have created a Facebook Group “Lockdown Laptops for Home Learning in Crewe & Nantwich”, asking local residents to donate unused or unwanted laptops and tablets directly to schools to be distributed to children who require them.
By Ethan Davies, local democracy reporter
Vulnerable children in Cheshire East were given hundreds of laptops from the Government during the coronavirus lockdown, new figures reveal.
The Department for Education provided 200,000 devices to local authorities and school trusts between May and July to help children access remote learning while schools were closed.
Police chiefs in Cheshire have bought 16 state-of-the-art speed enforcement devices to target rogue drivers in the county.
The devices are some of the most advanced compact all-in-one digital video cameras available.
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