Digital Skills

Skills Bootcamps are free, flexible courses of up to 16 weeks, giving people the opportunity to build up sector-specific skills and fast-track to an interview with a local employer.

Lloyds Bank Academy have developed online courses to help you learn how to stay safe online. These include information on using public Wi-Fi safely, setting passwords and staying safe from scams.

No matter what job role you think of in any industry you are going to require digital skills. Many digital skills are transferable to a range of different sectors.  In Cheshire and Warrington over 1k jobs advertised in the last 30 days requested skills in using Excel Spreadsheets which is part of Office 365.  

This is a free resource for people aged 16+ including those at University and lifelong learners. It provides opportunities to:

• Learn at your own pace
• Learn about technologies and digital skills
• Learn about entrepreneurship skills
• Learning pathways for jobs in enterprise computing
• Attend special events
• Meet experts
• Win prizes
• Earn badges

In 2019 the Cheshire and Warrington LEP’s Employers’ Skills and Education Board consulted on how best to invest £5 million of Local Growth Fund in the specialist equipment needed to raise awareness of new technologies, support adoption of new technologies and deliver digital and STEM-related training to as many residents as possible across Cheshire and Warrington.