WithYouWithMe (WYWM) an Australian based tech skills provider and the UK Civil Reserve (UKCR) a strategic body for the provision of professional emergency responders, today announce their partnership to help train and empower civilians with resilience skills to relieve the burden on government and front-line services in times of need.
The burden on government and front-line services has been increasing in recent years due to, for example, a surge in extreme weather incidents, the mounting pressure from global humanitarian crises and a global pandemic. WYWM and UKCR aim to reduce the pressure on their country’s emergency services and the Armed Forces by upskilling their nation’s civilians to provide additional resilience skills when it is most needed.
Through the partnership, UKCR can make use of WYWM’s aptitude testing which identifies individuals who possess key tech skills in order to train them. This could help veterans and the neurodivergent for example to upskill and find a vocation. Individuals can then receive training in high-demand digital careers – such as cyber security and software development – and gain transferrable skills for a variety of sectors, which could allow individuals to simultaneously pursue a career in their preferred field.
Richard Bowyer
UKCR Director
I’m delighted to be partnering with WYWM. Upskilling individuals to help in emergency response situations is a shared goal of both organisations and between us we can add significant value to UK resilience. The wide variety of skills taught through WYWM and UKCR will enable us to build more resilient communities, embracing the whole of society. The UKCR’s team of high readiness reservists will enable us to rapidly respond with a well-trained, professional team, in the UK, in times of crisis.”
Tom Moore
CEO and co-founder, WithYouWithMe
The need for a resilient digital workforce is ever-growing in the UK and partnering with the UK Civil Reserve allows us to author an effective solution by identifying potential candidates suitable for key tech and incident related roles.
This program allows us to support untapped talent pools, such as veterans, and assess their proficiency in technological skills to match them to a high-demand role that suits them.
These individuals can then be trained up with the necessary accredited digital skills and deployed in the nation’s workforce to tackle incident response and so much more.
Sir James Everard, Former Deputy Supreme Allied Commander for NATO and Senior Advisor to WithYouWIthMe, said: “Building a resilient digital workforce is essential for the UK and that requires leaders and key decision makers to be willing to adapt and be bold in their practices. If you take care of people and empower them, they will be successful, and that is vital in training up the next wave of digital workers.”