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Get involved in Cyber Scotland Week, 17th to 23rd February.  This is a weeklong festival of events which can support BOTH CLD practitioners and learners to feel connected, confident and resilient online. 

CLD practitioners are well placed to enable people to enter cyber industries. Cyber career pathways are blooming across the world, cyber security is fast becoming a mainstream profession and SQA has a suite of qualifications from SCQF level 4 to 11.
People often turn to CLD services when they are at the start of their digital journey. People trust us to show them how to get online and how to stay safe.

However one third of CLD practitioners identified digital skills as a development need in the 2018 CLD workforce survey So if you would like to increase your confidence there are cyber catalyst organisations who can help.  

Lead Scotland is holding several events with practical support to overcome barriers. We all know we need a strong password, but how does someone put it into practice if they find reading and writing difficult, experience memory loss or need the screen magnified to see the password box etc. We will be promoting Youthlink Scotland’s excellent Safe, Secure and Empowered resource full of practical learning bytes for young people and adults. 

• Increase people's cyber resilience through awareness raising and engagement 
• Explicitly embed cyber resilience throughout our education and lifelong learning system
• Increase people's cyber resilience at work
• Develop the cyber security workforce and profession to ensure that skills supply meets demand and that skilled individuals can find rewarding employment in Scotland.

Sign up to the Cyber Scotland Week events, join in the conversation on #CyberScotWeek2020 and keep up to speed with blogs from the Scottish Cyber Resilience team.