Essential Digital Skills qualifications (EDSQs) are automatically funded for adults who don’t have the basic digital skills that are typically required for life and work. Catch up with our latest…

A selection of resources to support your delivery of Essential Digital Skills Qualifications (EDSQ).
Off-the-shelf packages with resources to support blended delivery and fill local vacancies.
Hints, tips and examples to help meet some of the most common delivery challenges.

At the forefront of making these new qualifications available to learners through colleges and training providers.

The Department for Education has published the new Essential Digital Skills Standards 2026. Find out what’s changed, when the updated standards come into effect, and what the revisions mean for digital skills provision, qualifications and tailored learning programmes.

Staffing requirements within a centre, and internal and external quality assurance.

Read more about some of our key takeaways from the AELP National Conference.

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