A Welsh Government-funded programme helping people aged 19 and over to improve their skills and employment prospects has received a £3 million boost to focus on digital and net zero skills, Ministers have confirmed.
Personal Learning Accounts (PLA) support individuals on lower-incomes and those whose jobs are at risk, to learn new skills, achieve new qualifications and help to rewrite their careers.
£1 million will be used to train people in areas including cyber, programming, data analysis, network and cloud infrastructure, database management, and digital analysis skills. £2 million will be invested to support individuals to either upskill or re-skill in net zero skills, which will help develop a highly skilled workforce to support Wales achieve a transition to net zero. The sectors supported will be construction, energy, engineering and manufacturing.
To date over £51 million has been invested and almost 30,000 adults in Wales have benefited since Personal Learning Accounts launched in 2019, with over 16,000 individuals enrolling within the last academic year alone.
The free and flexible courses are available across Wales through 13 Welsh colleges and deliver vocational training in sectors where there is a skills shortage to ensure the future needs of the economy are met.
For further information please select the following link https://gov.wales/3m-skills-boost-digital-and-green-sector