‘Schools will need to search pencil cases or use airport scanners to enforce phone ban’

Mobile phones are easy to conceal in school blazers or bags (Picture: Metro)

Headteachers have warned secondary schools might struggle to ban ‘addictive’ and ‘distracting’ mobile phones from their classrooms.

Principles have weighed in on the government’s decision to make it law that smartphones should be banned in schools.

The senior teachers welcomed the move to kick out the ‘damaging’ devices, which they say are hurting their abilities to socialise and focus.

But some fear it will be difficult to enforce on older children unless they turn to ‘impractical’ searches or scans of students belongings.

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