Can your school take advantage of the additional DfE Connect The Classroom funding that has been announced? Here at Atlas Support we have already secured over £7 million of Connect The Classroom DfE funding for multiple schools and academies across England.
Forty priority education investment areas have been identified by the Department for Education and are eligible for the Connect The Classroom funding, these are –
Blackpool, Bradford, Derby , Doncaster, Fenlands & East Cambridgeshire, Halton, Hartlepool, Hastings, Ipswich, Knowsley, Liverpool, Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire Coast, Norwich, Nottingham, Oldham, Portsmouth, Rochdale, Salford, Sandwell, Stoke on Trent, Tameside, Walsall and West Somerset.
Schools in the education investment areas who have also been evaluated as Requires Improvement or Inadequate in their most recent inspection are also eligible.
Confirm you qualify – If you haven’t already been contacted by the DfE then you should receive an email or letter within a matter of weeks confirming that you qualify for the funding. You only have until February 2024 to get your funding approved.
Arrange a FREE full site survey – contact Atlas Support who will arrange this for you.
Get a Proposal – Atlas Support will build the proposal for you to ensure it meets the DfE’s strict funding criteria.
Apply – Submit your proposal to the Department for Education.
Funding approved – Once you have had the funding application approved contact us to arrange Installation.
Installation – Our team of specialist engineers will upgrade your Network to Wi-Fi 6.
Do not worry, more and more schools will be being contacted by the DfE throughout the course of the programme.
Creates a better learning environment for your school – Classroom learning today is more reliant on cloud based apps and digital learning technologies which puts a greater strain on your wireless network resulting in network downtime and disrupted classroom learning time. Wi-Fi 6 is built to give you reliable and fast wireless coverage across your whole school.
Atlas Support are an established educational ICT provider with over 30 years’ experience providing services to schools across the UK. We have worked for many years delivering multiple ICT projects for a large number of schools and helped over 60 schools with their IT and Wi-Fi upgrades, so we are well placed to help you through the Connect the Classroom process. We provide an end-to-end service from initial survey to planning and putting the proposal together for you, to installation. We make the whole process easy with minimum disruption to you or your school.
We have a team of accredited DBC checked engineers who have implemented 100’s of networks into school environments with minimum disruption on budget and on time.
