Digital Youth Index launch. Voices of 4000 young people. 14% lack a device. Nominet

Table is set ready for FutureDotNow Senior Leaders Council. Looking forward to hearing their insights as we work to galvanise action against the recommendations in our roadmap and close the UK’s essential #digital #skills gap.

Here's the issue. In just two days Thames Water 💧 dumped over 2 billion litres of sewage into the Thames at Modgen.

Would that be 1 dump or 2?

Would that now even need to be counted, it's less than 10 times per year?

How will you ever know TW does the counting.

Shambles!

NEWS FLASH: Govt backtracking on sewage monitors.

Govt has quietly announced that WCs will not be required to install monitors on sewage overflows which dump less than 10 times a year over a 5-year average.

And who does the counting? Yep, the WC.

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Whitstable's bathing water is classified as 'excellent'.

And here it was this morning.

What Roxane Heaton BEM said 👏⬇️💯

Sewage, sewage, everywhere.

2x 14 hour releases in the IOW.
14+ hours in Bexhill.
13+ hours in Langstone Harbour.

So what are Bob Seely MP, Huw Merriman MP and Alan Mak MP 🇬🇧 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 going to do about this latest Southern Water deluge in their constituencies during bathing season? 🤔

🌟 So proud of the past year of progress and impact, working with partners to together #FixTheDigitalDivide

Check out our impact review on YouTube below.

Well done to all our partners, especially the thousands of you in the National Digital Inclusion Network 🌟

THIS. 7 out of 10 parents will struggle to afford to keep their kids online during the holidays.
Huge kudos to Virgin Media O2 News Vodafone UK & Three UK for their leadership powering up the #NationalDataBank from Good Things Foundation and keeping families online 👏

Oh this! My mum used to take me when I visited her at work during the school holidays. Lovely memories. And a different price bracket to Ivy Brasserie!

The #DigitalSkillGap in public-facing services has played a critical role in its ability to support residents.This brilliant tool from digitalunite will help get you started to empower your teams to become #DigitalChampions enhancing the quality of support &efficiency of service

'BATHING WATERS IN THE BEST STATE EVER', screams the minister 'last year 93% were classified as ‘good’ or ‘excellent’'.

That's an impressive number; or is it? Your short 🧵for a Sunday morning. (1/7)

We're thrilled to have Amey join the FutureDotNow coalition and join our work to improve the digital capability of the UK workforce.

❗ '59% of the UK workforce are unable to do all of the digital tasks essential for work. Greater Manchester Combined Authority welcomes the FutureDotNow Skills Roadmap - a practical path to address these gaps' said Cllr Nick Peel 👏
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Great to be joined by Paul Scully MP at the launch of our #DigitalSkills Roadmap yesterday. A huge thanks to him and the team at Department for Science, Innovation and Technology for their support in producing our new call for action on workplace #DigitalSkills .

You can read the roadmap here - futuredotnow.uk/digitalskillsr…

🚨⏰We're launching Charity Digital Skills Report next week! Come and join us at our free launch day webinar on Wed 12 July 1-2pm where Think Social Tech and I will be sharing the key findings and discussing how your charity can action them.

Sign up here:

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Brilliant morning visiting @darnallwb w Good Things Foundation Board. So inspiring to hear first hand from their volunteers about they are helping local people use #digital to access vital services. 👏

The River Cam. 😡

This but at the moment at least three of my ducks are squirrels on a night out! #life

#RIP Valentina Evangelou Valentina Evangelou

Talented Computing Leader/Teacher 20+ Yrs Lancasterian Primary & Coach London school
Champion #Edtech Barefoot Computing Scratch Team
2Simple 💻 busythings.co.uk Common Sense Education TTS Resources Just2easy 🚀
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