BBC News:
Call for mobile phone ban in Scottish primary schools
16 August 2017
Mobile phones should be banned from primary schools, according to the Scottish Conservatives.
Scottish Conservative MSP Michelle Ballantyne urged the government to overhaul this guidance, calling for an outright ban on phones in primary schools and the introduction of restrictions on their use in secondary schools if head teachers deem it necessary. The South Scotland MSP highlighted research from academics at the London School of Economics into the impact of banning phones in high schools in England.