The project is funded by the European Social Fund and brings together specialist training providers and institutional partners to develop and promote the use of ICT as a way of up-skilling the care sector workforce.

?Knowledge of ICT is crucial to workforce development, particularly when CSCI and Skills for Care will require online returns and communication by newsletter and email. You need to know how to drive a car and use a cash-point machine in order to function as part of the modern economy. Now, in the 21st century you also now need to know how to use a computer, the Internet and email in order to function at work and to communicate effectively?, says Nigel Hall, Director of Studies.

Successful candidates from Shaftesbury Homes and Lifecare Consulting were presented their ECDL certificates by Nigel Hall and Anne-Marie Bond, ECDL Training Manager.