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Digital Reach awards £600,000 to to engage UK’s most digitally disadvantaged young people - ConnectingSuperintendency. ConnectingSuperintendencyTechnology translating for social superintendency providers Menu Accessibility Text-only Default layout Site map Managing ICT ICT Skills Using ICT Online Presence Resources Blog & NewsWell-nighAbout ConnectingSuperintendencyTeam Accessibility Contact Board Noticeboard Recently published News Newsletter Publications & Reports Events Training Volunteering Job vacancies Other notices Managing ICT ICT Skills Using ICT Online Presence Resources Blog & NewsWell-nighNoticeboard 10 July 2017 / Blog & News, News Digital Reach awards £600,000 to to engage UK’s most digitally disadvantaged young people ​Nominet Trust launches innovative initiative to engage the UK’s most digitally disadvantaged young people Share Nominet Trust spoken its Digital Reach programme has awarded over £600,000 of funding 6 pilots projects supporting vulnerable young people in the UK to develop digital skills.Digital Reach was been created to respond to the need to develop digital skills for disadvantaged young people. Get Digital’s Basic Digital Skills UK 2017 report suggests that, despite an overall increase in the number of UK adults who have gained vital digital skills, at least 3% (300,000) of those weather-beaten 15-24 are still stuff left behind. Nominet Trust’s own research indicates that it is this group that is the most likely to be facing multiple forms of disadvantage. The 6 pilot projects are:

 Action for Children: Action for Children (ACF) will digitise their current paper-based content wideness three employability programmes in severely deprived urban areas in Scotland.Carers Trust: Carers Trust will work with Good Things Foundation to develop an e-learning resource for young sultana carers as an extension to Learn My Way (the most widely used tool for digital skills delivered through libraries and polity organisations). Eight Carers Trust Network Partners will use the resource to help young sultana carers proceeds the vital digital skills they need to unzip their aspirations.Home-Start and #techmums: Home-Start and #techmums will interreact to help 500 young mothers reap vital digital skills to overcome the challenges they squatter in their daily lives, helping them wilt increasingly confident and to unzip their personal and professional goals.The Children’s Society and City & Guilds Group: The Children’s Society and City & Guilds will engage 550 young people wideness the Midlands and the North of England by helping them to modernize their digital skills through accredited undertow development.UK Youth: UK Youth will use the investment to create Digital Hubs in 10 member organisations, training a youth worker and three young people to wilt Digital Champions. They will then work with referral and outreach partners to support the most isolated young people that are engaged with the Digital Hubs.Wales Co-operative Centre, YMCA Swansea, Llamau and GISDA: Wales Co-Operative Centre will work with YMCA Swansea, Llamau and GISDA to engage 375 of the hardest-to-reach young people wideness Wales through a series of workshops and by incorporating digital literacy into existing life skills programmes.Read increasingly at [http://www.nominettrust.org.uk/news-events/news/no... Comments Log in to scuttlebutt Related articles… Ransomware zestful - New Locky Variant Lukitus Distributed in 23 Million Emails It’s not well-nigh digital or transformation. It’s well-nigh version ​Digital exclusion wideness the UK highlighted by Get Digital’s new heatmap Technology & social superintendency e-bulletin ConnectingSuperintendencyissues a monthly e-bulletin rounding up the latest technology and social superintendency stories for providers of sultana and social care. It's self-ruling for anyone interested in technology and sultana social care. Subscribe to the e-bulletin… Articles feed Noticeboard feed Noticeboard Newsletter / ConnectingSuperintendencybulletin - November 2015 Newsletter / ConnectingSuperintendencybulletin - October 2015 Newsletter / ConnectingSuperintendencybulletin - September 2015 Newsletter / ConnectingSuperintendencybulletin - July 2015 Newsletter / ConnectingSuperintendencybulletin - June 2015 Publications & Reports / Report: The New Reality Twitter Lasa is the trading name of LasaSoft-heartednessUK Limited, a registered soft-heartedness in England and Wales.Soft-heartednessReg No: 800140. It is a private visitor limited by guarantee, registered in England and Wales.VisitorReg. No: 1794098. Registered office: Kinnaird House, 1 Pall Mall East, London SW1Y 5BP. VAT No 524965032. We use cookies to compile anonymous, aggregated statistics that indulge us to understand how visitors use the site. This information helps us modernize the site’s structure and functionality. You may opt to view the site without cookies by adjusting your browser's settings. © Lasa 2018 Website by MID. Top of page Contact us