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Supporting the Next Generation: How System C Is Driving Digital Inclusion
As the UK’s digital landscape continues to evolve, ensuring an equitable future for the next generation has never been more important. System C is proud to support techUK’s TechTogether 2026 campaign and its mission to break barriers, widen access, and create opportunities for all.
Digital inclusion is not simply a societal priority it’s a strategic imperative for our sector. To build technologies that work for everyone, we must build teams that represent everyone. At System C, we are committed to taking meaningful, sustained action to support diverse early‑career talent, empower women in tech, embed equity into our culture and solutions, and strengthen online safety across the digital ecosystem.
Opening Doors for Early Career Talent
This year, System C is excited to join a partnership with She Can Code to strengthen our entry‑level hiring pathways. By connecting with diverse early‑career candidates, we aim to widen access to tech roles, remove barriers to entry, and ensure applicants feel supported, confident, and visible within our sector.
This partnership complements our broader commitment to National Careers Week and our ambition to inspire more young women to pursue digital, engineering, and data roles. Encouraging the next generation starts with making the tech sector feel accessible, not intimidating and we are determined to play our part.
Empowering Women in Tech at Every Stage
Representation at senior levels remains a challenge across the industry, and progress requires intentional investment. That’s why System C proudly runs Women in Leadership Apprenticeships, supporting women across our organisation to develop the skills, confidence, and visibility needed to progress from early management to executive roles.
“At System C, our DEI&B strategy and priorities are data-led, helping us spot where bias might show up in our people processes and take action. While we’re already ahead of our sector on women’s representation, our ambition is to keep raising the bar at every level. We’ve invested in talented women in the upper-middle pay quartile through our Level 7 Women in Leadership apprenticeship, an applied, practical programme that builds leadership capability and brings this cohort closer to our values and ways of working,” says Tanya Kennedy, Chief Human Resources Officer, System C.
These programmes are more than training; they are part of a long-term commitment to career progression and equitable leadership. We are also actively engaging with government events networks focused on Women in Leadership strategies, ensuring we contribute to and learn from national best practice.
Embedding Equity in Our Culture
This year, System C is establishing a new Colleague Network framework, one of which is set to focus specifically on gender inclusion. These networks will give colleagues a voice in shaping equitable policies, designing inclusive processes, and ensuring our workplace reflects the diversity of the communities we serve.
As technology becomes more deeply embedded in everyday life, digital access and safety must evolve hand‑in‑hand. System C continues to support safer, more accessible digital experiences for users across healthcare, social care and education. We believe that when diverse voices shape digital systems, we design with greater empathy, stronger safeguards, and better outcomes.
Looking Ahead
At System C, we are committed to working with partners across the sector to support the next generation, remove systemic barriers, and accelerate a future where every individual can participate confidently and securely in the digital world.
We are proud to stand with techUK and fellow members in championing a more inclusive, equitable, and representative tech sector for 2026 and beyond.
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About the campaign
techUK’s TechTogether campaign continues with a focus on ‘equity by design'. Our insights this week focus on the importance of inclusive design in product development, creating technology that is accessible to people with disabilities, tackling affordability, connectivity, and digital skills gaps through cross-sector partnerships and community-led initiatives, and, ensuring public services are co-designed with disabled, ethnic, and older users.
TechTogether - Week 3
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