Spring North Event

Digital poverty is lack of access to a device and also lack of adequate bandwidth within a household.

Aside from the emotional stress of short term employment contracts for both employee and employer there is also the need to manage exit strategies for service users. Short term contracts can mean that work is finishing before it has effectively started.

Realism in tender/funding bid requirements. Whilst it is recognised that this may be the result of central government policy, and a need to deal with unprecedented times, for a service to be effective it is best planned (and not a knee jerk reaction) and also,… Read More »Realism in tender/funding bid requirements

Need to recognise space requirements in delivering in new ways and in new circumstance.

Need for IT funding for VCFSE organisations moving delivery of services to a new, long term, model. This also includes upgraded home internet packages where needed for speed purposes

Digital safety requires investment. VCFSE bodies are well placed to deliver this. There is a need for a. resource to enable this to be delivered. b. knowledge of what is being delivered, when and to whom (the latter can be addressed by a GDPR release… Read More »Investment required to ensure digital safety

Need for public bodies, moving services on line, to ensure that the issues of digital poverty are adequately addressed.