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Digital Skills and Inclusion

#VolunteeringMatters: Celebrating volunteering in all its diversity

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It’s Volunteers’ Week. This national event takes place 1-7 June every year. Claire Donaldson, Early Careers Policy and Engagement Strategy Lead for the Digital Skills and Inclusion team at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) explains why we should be celebrating volunteering in all its diversity.

Guest Post: Lancashire Enterprise Partnership – Developing the first Local Digital Skills Partnership (Local DSP)

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Guest Post: How we're working to improve basic digital skills training for adults

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Part of our work here in the Digital Skills and Inclusion team is to work closely with the Department for Education (DfE) on policies that are particularly relevant to digital skills. We want to strengthen our collaboration, so we’ll be …

The Basic Digital Skills Framework is being updated - now’s your chance to have a say and shape its future.

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The Tech Partnership and Lloyds Banking Group have today launched a consultation on updating the Basic Digital Skills framework. Created in 2015 by Go ON UK, working with a wide range of partners from education, the public, private and third …

Being an Intern in the Digital Skills and Inclusion Team

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Hi! My name is Ntima and I recently completed my internship at the Civil Service in the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport. I applied to the Summer Diversity Internship Programme (SDIP) earlier this year. This 6-9 week programme …

A newly improved Digital Inclusion Evaluation Toolkit

In 2015 we published a digital inclusion evaluation toolkit (“Evaluate IT”). Since then, the team has worked with members of the Digital Inclusion Research and Evaluation Working Group, organisations in local government, the charity sector and housing associations, to test …