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Making your digital strategy inclusive

Whether you're creating or reviewing your digital strategy, consider digital inclusion so everyone in your school can benefit and pupils can thrive online.

Last reviewed on 18 March 2025
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Contents
  1. Understand what 'digital inclusion' looks like 
  2. Use devices that are accessible for all pupils
  3. Make the curriculum accessible for all pupils
  4. Support pupils who don’t have digital access at home
  5. Prepare pupils for online safety risks
  6. Be aware of bias when using AI tools
  7. Support teachers, as well as pupils

If you're just starting or reviewing your digital strategy, read more guidance on how to approach it.

Understand what 'digital inclusion' looks like 

There's no set way to create an inclusive digital strategy and it may encompass a number of different things. Your school might already be working towards their own definition of inclusion.

Consider using the concept of 'digital inclusion' to help guide your strategy. Again, there's no single definition of 'digital inclusion', but Unicef consider someone to be sufficiently digitally included when they have:

See Unicef's report on closing the digital divide for good for more detail. This is aimed at the UK government, but there are some elements that may be useful for schools to