Scheme details
Area: Newcastle upon Tyne, Sunderland, County Durham, Gateshead, South Tyneside, North Tyneside, Northumberland
Categories: Business support
Business stage: Trading business
resource.category.help-with.label: People and skills
Telephone: 0800 100 900
Page last updated: 05 February 2024
Boosting the nation’s digital skills is a first step towards recovery, helping people build up the skills employers need and boosting growth and productivity. The Skills Toolkit focusses on the skills employers need, giving people easy access to free, high quality courses in digital and numeracy.
This is good opportunity to give people a taster of online learning, helping you to deliver effective in work training in future. The Skills Toolkit could help you support and develop your furloughed employees. Courses cover topics including:
- practical maths
- computer essentials
- personal growth and wellbeing
- professional development
- business and finance
- digital design and marketing
- computer science and coding
Upskill your employees
As an employer, you can share these free courses with your staff. 94% of employees would stay at a company longer if it invested in their career development. Help boost team productivity and motivation by upskilling your employees with free, high-quality digital, numeracy and soft skills courses. All courses on The Skills Toolkit are free and available online, so your teams can learn flexibly from home at a time that suits them.