New standards for essential digital skills for adults have been unveiled.

These standards will form the basis of essential digital skills qualifications for adults who would like to gain confidence and develop digital skills to be able to undertake tasks such as sending emails or completing on-line forms.

The new qualifications will be available free to anyone over the age of 19 from September 2020.

The standards will also inform the development of new subject content for digital functional skills qualifications, available for first teaching from September 2021.