Free Computer & Internet Access for Children aged 7-14 of Low Income Families

only_mee

Should be ok as they need to send the details you supplied to barclaycard for the card to be loaded with the correct figure.

bcham

janey111166 wrote: »

be creful because if you have the prepaid dongle and use it for anything other than education they will reduce your interent time to just 448mb per month. so always have a substitute on hand as I share the laptop with my son and his dongle keeps getting suspended for over use of non educational purposes ( social networking, newspapers, emails, hotmail, anything other than specified websites.. but other than that it is a great idea as mine loves his laptop but hates his prepaid dongle..

my son just got his laptop and prepaid dongle.last week he uses it for some education sights,but mostly he uses it for face book,and msn.how will he know if he gets it reduced to 448mb.

longhotbath

Has anyone on the site applied for one for a disabled child? We do have a laptop in the house with internet access, but my son cant use it and needs a touch screen computer, with the adapted software.

Can we apply for one, even though we already have one that he cannot use?

Chuffy

I phoned them earlier today as was going to promote it through work in isolation of the update today - read that later (I work for a social landlord with 21,000 tenants). They said there were 40,000 forms left but they thought they were going to stop sending the forms out the third week of June. Get in quick folks!

OhDrat_2

This is NOT available to Home Educators, even if they are on income support or Child Tax Credits and qualify in all other ways.

outofmoney

janey111166 wrote: »

be creful because if you have the prepaid dongle and use it for anything other than education they will reduce your interent time to just 448mb per month. so always have a substitute on hand as I share the laptop with my son and his dongle keeps getting suspended for over use of non educational purposes ( social networking, newspapers, emails, hotmail, anything other than specified websites.. but other than that it is a great idea as mine loves his laptop but hates his prepaid dongle..

That's interesting. We took our laptop away with us last week so the older kids could still do some school work as quite a bit is online.
I didn't apply for a dongle as we already have BB and I got a dongle last year when 3 were doing them for about £4.

So I used the 3 dongle we already had and it automatically opened the home access website......

Yet we are told that the laptops have not had any info added/taken from them.....hmmmm.

sspeeedy

I have got the grant but there are quite a few different laptops to choose from and some are better than others. Any techy people know which one to get.

only_mee

http://www.homeaccessgrant.com/
That comes with 2GB and tbh the operating will struggle with just 1GB if you are using a lot of RAM.

Deals_2

or is it limited to year 3?

lorweld wrote: »

http://www.homeaccess.org.uk/Information-for-parents/

andyfrank

read that as from mon 21st june 2010 the scheme ends due to the pot running out ! even thou it should have ran for 12 months then they said november , then last week it was announced monday 21st june was the deadline for applying
i received mine months ago brill pc my kids love it and have learnt so much recently with it , just a shame to the people who have abused the system and sold it , how can people deprive there own kids a good education baffles me