England has no national school digital platform for safe central provision of AI tools (no Hwb equivalent)

Wales provides Hwb, centrally licensed tools, identity and filtering for all maintained schools, and Scotland has Glow. England leaves more than 22,000 schools and trusts to procure individually. DfE's AI Content Store serves developers, the £23m EdTech Testbeds trial products in around 1,000 settings, and Oak provides content. No central identity, licensing and delivery layer gives every English pupil and teacher access to vetted AI tools, so access tracks trust capacity and budget rather than need.

Fragmented procurement means duplicated spend, no aggregated buying power against AI vendors, uneven safeguarding, and an access gap: pupils in small or poor schools get no safe AI tools while large trusts negotiate enterprise deals. Central provision is proven UK practice next door in Wales.

A DfE-commissioned national education platform, or a federated framework across trusts: single sign-on, centrally negotiated licences, and delivery restricted to assurance-body-certified AI tools. In effect, Hwb translated to England's trust structure.

// Build together: Counterparty: coalition of MATs forming federated SSO/licensing framework; DfE-commissioned platform is the statutory end-state.

England's 22,000 schools procure individually with no central licensing or safeguarding layer, and the mid-horizon build has no dated trigger despite Wales and Scotland proving the model.