the IT will belong to the school, who will take it back when the child leaves or it's no longer required, and it will remain their asset. They are not given away they are leant.
we found ourselves at the beginning of lockdown with no laptop
access for our daughter - we both have laptops but they were both required by us to WFH. Luckily we could afford the £450 to get a laptop for her (and roll it up into a birthday pressie) so she got one. We also had to buy her a desk and make space for her to work in the living room - luckily we were able to do that as well, but I could see that many families (not just poor ones) would struggle to be able to do both those things, especially at a time when jobs were being lost left right and centre