2024 delivery plan: Employer Action

The Employer Action area of the 2024 delivery plan is working to ensure that all organisations have the insight and tools required to understand the digital skills gap and upskill the UK workforce.

There are two distinct workstreams, each led and supported by members of the FutureDotNow coalition. If you’d like to get involved, contact hello@futuredotnow.uk.

 Action area co-leads:

Deborah O’Neill
Head of Digital Europe
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Stuart Mills
Consultant – Digital Leader

Employer Action workstreams:

5. Help organisations understand digital skills levels in their workforce

Ambition for 2024

There will be better access to data and insight on the workforce essential digital skills to inform and empower action by individual organisations.

New developments will mean organisations can:

  1. interrogate national essential digital skills data more effectively and efficiently to inform their interventions.
  2. run their own assessments and measure individual/ org-wide progress.

Sprint 1 objectives
(Jan-March)
  • Webinar to help organisations understand new workforce data in the 2023 Consumer Digital Index.
  • Scoping to understand what data organisations require to inform their interventions and merit of developing a more sophisticated front end to the Lloyds Bank Consumer Digital Index data.

Sprint 1 achievements
  • New analysis completed of the EDS for Work data within the 2023 Consumer Digital Index. Shared with c100 business leaders in a webinar.
  • A range of solutions for businesses to assess the level of essential digital skills in their workforce in development, including a prototype assessment tool, a standalone question set to measure individual digital confidence, and curated guidance for employers helping them get the most of existing assets

Workstream led by:

Workstream supported by:

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6. Help organisations train the workforce in Essential Digital Skills

Ambition for 2024

It will be easier for organisations to take action and train their workforce in essential digital skills because existing training resources and guidance will be more readily accessible. 

Feedback loops will have been developed to surface what content works, what doesn’t and where the gaps in training are.  Training content gaps will be identified to inform action to close them.

Sprint 1 objectives
(Jan-March)
  • Review completed to make existing training assets and guidance more readily available (priority focus on ‘being safe and legal online’ skill area as area with lowest capability levels).
  • New area developed on FutureDotNow website to house key content and make easy to access, for launch at Accelerate 2024.

Sprint 1 achievements
  • Criteria developed to help training providers map training against the 20 tasks in the Essential Digital Skills Framework, with an initial focus on the Being Safe and Legal online skills. 
  • Training resources in the FutureDotNow Digital Skills Directory will include this new granularity when the next version goes live later in the Summer.
  • If not already involved, training providers are invited to review their offering against the new criteria so they can be included.

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Workstream supported by:

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