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North Wales Health Digital Skills Programme Launch

A unique memorandum of understanding has been signed, with Betsi Cadwaladr Health Board and Digital Communities Wales committing to working with the UNISON and health workers to design and run new digital skills courses and workshops.   The public service trade union UNISON is working with workers and local health bosses on an initiative to find new ways […]

Uncategorized on the UNISON Cymru/Wales site.

Get online, get confident

UNISON is pleased to support Get Online week in October, and is marking the event with the launch of a series of basic digital skills workshops. Get Online Week is a digital inclusion campaign organised by Good Things Foundation. With 9 million adults in the UK unable to get online without help, over 13 million lacking the […]

Learning news on the UNISON College site.

UNISON launch Inclusive Technology Guide with Diversity and Ability

For many of us, there are very real barriers when it comes to doing work if we have a disability or are neurodiverse. This is why we’ve been working with Diversity and Ability to create a great new guide of useful technologies to use in the workplace to make work easier. We’ve got tools to […]

Learning news on the UNISON College site.

#GetOnlineWeek is here!

This week it’s Get Online Week and UNISON, along with other organisations across the UK, will be supporting people to get online and take part in the digital world. It’s estimated that over 5 million working adults lack the full set of basic digital skills – so with the rise of digitisation and automation in […]

Learning news on the UNISON College site.

Are you ready for #GetOnlineWeek this October?

There are over 5 million people in the UK who’ve never been online, and a staggering 11.9 million people who don’t have the essential digital skills to navigate life and work. As jobs and the workplace become more digitised workers with low or no digital skills risk being excluded both in the workplace and in […]

Learning news on the UNISON College site.

Maths and English: not just for termtime

Schools may have broken up for the summer, but for us learning is something that happens all year round. And it can be useful to concentrate on the basics – ‘functional skills’, as they’re called – English, maths, and digital skills. Here are some great free resources to help you and your colleagues do that. […]

Learning news on the UNISON College site.

Boosting our members’ digital confidence

It’s Get Online Week from 15 to 21 October – as the use of digital technology increases in the workplace, we want members to try one thing online to increase their digital skills and gain digital confidence

Article on the UNISON National site.

Getting digital – union organising

Work patterns have changed, and unions also have to change – if we’re going to organise and support the workers of the future.

Digital on the digital.unison site.

Staying safe online

If you’re posting on Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram or any other social platform – chances are you’ve received unwanted or even abusive comments – often from complete strangers

Blogs, Digital on the digital.unison site.

Improving the experience of joining UNISON online: day one of our design sprint

For five days eight UNISON staff are working together to decide what a future experience for joining UNISON online should look like. Day one focused on a review of how online joining works at the moment for UNISON members and what kind of vision and goals we might set for a new online join experience

Blogs, Digital on the digital.unison site.