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New scheme provides people route out of digital exclusion and into work

December 4, 2020
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New scheme provides people route out of digital exclusion and into work

A new scheme is supporting more than 100 long-term unemployed people in the Liverpool City Region into the workplace, by providing them with computer equipment, access to the internet, and digital skills training.

This innovative scheme is delivered by Pathways to Work and has been developed in partnership between Jobcentre Plus and the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority’s Households into Work programme, with funding from DWP’s Flexible Support Fund.

New scheme provides people route out of digital exclusion and into work

Eligible participants, including more than 70 Households into Work clients so far, receive a desktop computer or laptop, free internet access for two months, along with a computer desk and chair set up for them in their home.

Participants in the scheme, which runs until March next year, have to do a Level One course in Internet Safety for IT Users and upon completion of an assessment they are allowed  to keep all of the equipment they have been given. The assessment is normally taken in a classroom, but due to the Covid-19 pandemic and lockdown, Pathways to Work is radically changing the way they conduct the 20 minute multiple choice assessment.

An 18-seater bus has been converted so that trainers can travel to the homes of people who are unable to come to them, giving the option to take the assessment on board.

Steve Rotheram, Metro Mayor of the Liverpool City Region, said: “When I was elected I pledged to drive towards making the City Region the most digitally inclusive place in the UK.

“Our Households into Work programme has worked with more than 1600 people across the last three years, helping them overcome the barriers that prevent them from entering the work place. 

“The pandemic has shown us even more strongly just how essential technology is in connecting us to work, learn and access entertainment.

“A lack of digital skills and IT equipment is a major barrier holding  talented people back, especially now when we are more reliant than ever on technology to access services and job opportunities, as well as keeping in touch with each other. That’s why during the first lockdown we funded a number of schemes tackling digital exclusion through LCR Cares and that’s why we are backing this scheme now.”

Households into Work has supported more than 1600 people over the last three years. With a team of 25 advocates based in all six Liverpool City Region local authority areas, they work with disenfranchised, long-term unemployed people who, because of their circumstances, have difficulty finding and sustaining employment.

Lucy from Knowsley took her Level 1 assessment on the bus today. She said: “The computer is allowing me to complete online courses which are going to help me back into the workplace and to be able to have the bus come practically to your door to be able to take the assessment in a Covid safe setting is brilliant. It’s really made a difference to me.”

Pathways to Work is running until March 2021. For more information on the Households into Work programme or to find out how you can be referred go to: www.liverpoolcityregion-ca.gov.uk/what-we-do/households-into-work/

READ MORE: Free Digital Skills for the Workplace training introduced by Liverpool City Region

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