The full launch follows a pilot that has been running since the end of last year (YPN, 10-16 September, p6). It is hoped the project will act as a model for the Government to provide a funding scheme.
NCH's three-year scheme has received 1m funding from a consortium of IT companies, including Microsoft, AOL and BAE Systems. It will target three socially excluded groups in NCH projects: physically disabled eight- to 20-year-olds at the Warren Park centre in Surrey; young refugees and asylum seekers in Bayswater, and 16-plus care-leavers in Coventry.
Project manager Kamaljit Matharu, who has been seconded to NCH from BAE Systems to work on the project, said: "Having no access to IT is a form of social exclusion. Only 10 per cent of disadvantaged communities have access to IT.
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