Distance learning and integrated digital education in times of pandemic: main legal provisions and division of competences between State and Regions

The health emergency caused by Covid-19 has impacted the entire world of education of girls, boys and adolescents. This led to the closure of schools for varying lengths of time and the consequent restructuring of teaching in different ways that would still guarantee the right to education.

The toughest restrictions were without doubt in the initial phase of the pandemic outbreak, which found the health system unprepared and in serious difficulty in providing adequate care to all, and then, alternately, in the months that followed due to the various "waves" of contagion that from time to time required the level of alert to be raised.