{"id":13753,"date":"2024-03-17T14:37:20","date_gmt":"2024-03-17T13:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/17\/nearly-half-of-uk-families-excluded-from-modern-digital-society-study-finds\/"},"modified":"2024-03-17T14:37:20","modified_gmt":"2024-03-17T13:37:20","slug":"nearly-half-of-uk-families-excluded-from-modern-digital-society-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/17\/nearly-half-of-uk-families-excluded-from-modern-digital-society-study-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly half of UK families excluded from modern digital society, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Lack of online skills and access creates digital divide that amplifies other exclusions, says report<\/p>\n<p>Almost half of UK families with children lack the online skills or access to devices, data and broadband required to participate in today\u2019s digital society, research shows, with an expert saying this divide is an \u201camplifier of other exclusions\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Research shared exclusively with the Guardian found that 45% of households with children did not meet the threshold. Families from low socioeconomic backgrounds in deprived areas and households outside London were among those who were less likely to meet it. Households from minority ethnic backgrounds and those with disabled parents were twice as likely to fall below it.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2024\/mar\/17\/half-uk-families-excluded-modern-digital-society-study\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/7c31ba6b6f4ac43e84e146b31ba1cf6e9a53e299\/0_31_3500_2101\/master\/3500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=28a0babaa8326ec90c79d45502e97b44\" title=\"Nearly half of UK families excluded from modern digital society, study finds\" \/>Exclusive: Lack of online skills and access creates digital divide that amplifies other exclusions, says report<br \/>\nAlmost half of UK families with children lack the online skills or access to devices, data and broadband required to participate in today\u2019s digital society, research shows, with an expert saying this divide is an \u201camplifier of other exclusions\u201d.<br \/>\nResearch shared exclusively with the Guardian found that 45% of households with children did not meet the threshold. Families from low socioeconomic backgrounds in deprived areas and households outside London were among those who were less likely to meet it. Households from minority ethnic backgrounds and those with disabled parents were twice as likely to fall below it. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: Lack of online skills and access creates digital divide that amplifies other exclusions, says report Almost half of UK families with children lack the online skills or access to devices, data and broadband required to participate in today\u2019s digital society, research shows, with an expert saying this divide is an \u201camplifier of other exclusions\u201d. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/17\/nearly-half-of-uk-families-excluded-from-modern-digital-society-study-finds\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nearly half of UK families excluded from modern digital society, study finds<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":13754,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13753"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}