Educating the Isolated?

You sometimes get the impression that this UK government has little idea how proportions of its population have to live. The Covid-19 pandemic means that children, who have been in contact with someone (often a classmate) testing positive for the virus, are sent home to 'self-isolate'. This of course interferes with the learning process. An edict has now appear for English schools, making it 'illegal' (but with no indication of who is to 'police' this) for schools not to provide 'high quality', daily work assignments for each self-isolating child. Again, there is little direction of who, in the already-stretched schools, should be doing this. Even worse, there are some children (the most educationally disadvantaged), whose parents (even before lockdown) couldn't afford laptops, home broadband or even substantial credits for mobile telephones (https://www.theguardian.com/education/2020/oct/20/how-can-englands-schools-educate-isolating-children-if-families-cant-afford-wifi). These would, of course, be essential items needed for the child to work on the demanded high quality video provision. This is from the same government that reneged on its promise, early in the pandemic, to greatly increase the supply of school laptops. Note to ministers: not everyone goes to a public school! There is little point in demanding material, if some of the children can't access it.