SWINDON MPs Robert Buckland and Justin Tomlinson are calling for the town's residents and businesses to help them provide more schoolchildren with working laptop computers for home schooling.

So far, the government has donated over 200,000 laptops through the ongoing Get Help With Technology scheme.

But there are still children here in Swindon who are without a laptop or having to share a laptop between several siblings, which makes home schooling more difficult.

Both MPs have joined forces and are asking IT technicians who are willing to volunteer to fix laptops to come forward, as well as calling for donations of laptops, which are not being used, or need fixing.

They said: “The government have been doing an excellent job with the scheme and we would like to support their efforts on a local level here in Swindon.

“We are calling for businesses and members of the public to help with this campaign, so that we can make life a little easier with home schooling for children, parents and teachers here in the town.”

Email robert.buckland.mp@parliament.uk or justin.tomlinson.mp@parliament.uk if you want to help.