West Yorkshire Local Digital Skills Partnership brings together passionate digital advocates and leaders from business, education, local communities and the third sector. These collaborative partnerships support the region's vision to transform lives through digital tech.
West Yorkshire Local Digital Skills Partnership, supported by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, provides an exciting opportunity to influence the digital skills landscape across the region.
Our Local Digital Skills Partnership has been created to inspire change and tackle the local digital skills challenges, with the following aims:
Workforce for the Future. The skills shortages and gaps are reduced in roles within the digital sector and in roles that require digital skills.
SME and Third Sector Growth. SMEs and Third Sector value and invest in digital skills for their workforce to transform their businesses.
Simplifying the Digital Offer. All residents understand how to access digital careers guidance and digital skills training for any stage of life or work.
The West Yorkshire Local Digital Skills Partnership has created the region’s first Digital Skills Plan. The growth of digital skills for all will help us to create an inclusive society and a thriving economy in West Yorkshire.
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In a blog for Digital Leaders, Cllr Susan Hinchcliffe, Chair of the Combined Authority, reflects on the launch of the West Yorkshire Local Digital Skills Partnership and how supporting digital skills will be central to economic recovery.
The West Yorkshire Local Digital Skills Partnership will bring together digital advocates and key leaders from business, education, local communities and the third sector to form a collaborative partnership to support the region’s vision to transform lives through digital tech.
The newly formed West Yorkshire Local Digital Skills Partnership Board met for the first time to map out how to support digital skills development and how the need for digital skills will boost the region’s economic recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic.