The Social Switch Project has received £200,000 from the VRU to deliver its free diversion programme to 24 young Londoners over the next six months after a successful pilot saw 40 young people trained in digital skills in the first half of the year.
The three-week full-time training programme is backed by Google and delivered by youth charity Redthread and social business Catch22. In addition to training in the use of search engines, social media and analytics, young people receive intensive career support after the programme has finished.
A total of 14 participants in the pilot Social Switch Project are already in employment, an apprenticeship or in a work experience programme; three have entered further training; and the remaining young people continue to get intensive career support.
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