The Government must bring forward a refreshed Digital Inclusion Strategy. The Strategy should have a detailed focus on the needs of digitally excluded older people, including a plan for funding locally delivered digital skills provision and promoting best practice in the public and private sectors in maintaining offline alternatives to digital for as long as needs remain, and a focus on broadband connectivity in rural and coastal areas. (Recommendation, Paragraph 76) Equality law and enforcea...

The Government must bring forward a refreshed Digital Inclusion Strategy. The Strategy should have a detailed focus on the needs of digitally excluded older people, including a plan for funding locally delivered digital skills provision and promoting best practice in the public and private sectors in maintaining offline alternatives to digital for as long as needs remain, and a focus on broadband connectivity in rural and coastal areas. (Recommendation, Paragraph 76) Equality law and enforceability of older people’s rights Type: recommendation | Number: 6 | Response status: accepted Government response: The government agrees with the Committee on the need for government action and leadership on digital inclusion, and the benefits of funding locally delivered initiatives. The government understands that digital exclusion creates new inequalities and exacerbates existing ones. We also know that certa