Over 400 residents from across Greater Manchester and Lancashire set to benefit from new specialist Department for Education funded digital skills training programmes.

These new flexible programmes, which are part of the Fast Track Digital Workforce Fund and funded by the Department for Education Digital Bootcamps, come with guaranteed interviews for jobs in the region in specialist tech roles such as DevOps, Data Analysts, Cloud Engineers or Digital Marketers.

The programmes include Tech Returners ' Your Return To Tech' programme which will launch an eighth cohort in the North West this month working exclusively with retailer AO to enable careers back into technology.

The Fast Track Digital Workforce Fund has already supported over 800 residents from underrepresented groups such as women and ethnic minorities with accessible pathways into digital careers.

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