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- Virtual Taster
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Funding theme:
Careers
Funding topic:Careers and recruitmentProject lead:Careers Collective LtdAmount awarded:£29,950Project summary:The Virtual tasters project will develop a standard and quality that positively promotes construction as an aspirational career path and is engaging and informative to support individuals to consider a career in construction.
Careers Collective Ltd will work in close collaboration with Education providers Experience Hubs to ensure the virtual tasters are aligned to their needs, and the outputs from this commission can be successfully incorporated into the Onsite Experience programme and that virtual tasters can be rolled-out to a wider audience within the construction industry.
- Scotland Tasters Commission
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Funding theme:
Careers
Funding topic:Careers and recruitmentProject lead:The Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce and ManufacturesAmount awarded:£280,000Project summary:This commission will develop, identify, evaluate, and increase the number and quality of work tasters specific to the construction industry in Scotland. The Tasters will be embedded into Scottish Careers processes. The Tasters will promote construction as an aspirational career path to support individuals make good career choices. This will include more people from a greater diverse background including those without a connection to construction are inspired to pursue a career in this Industry.
A suite of guidance documents will be developed to give clarity to employers on how to deliver a good quality taster including taster plans for large and small construction sites and across key skill areas. As part of the project 32 regions will be covered in the development and roll-out of Tasters to comply with Scottish Government legislation to provide support to isolated communities such as Shetland.
- Leadership and Management Direct Delivery - North of England
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Funding theme:
Training and Development
Funding topic:Leadership and managementProject lead:The OM GroupAmount awarded:£1,871,700Project summary:The OM Group was established over 14 years ago as a national provider of health and safety consultancy and training for the Construction and Build Environment sector. We have extensive real-life experience in the industry, which informs the training courses and programmes that we deliver. This allows us to provide relevant and authentic, practical advice and guidance to all our clients. Our approach is to ensure that employers in the industry understand the benefits of providing their front-line managers, Site Managers and Site Supervisors with Leadership and Management skills, to enable those individuals to make informed decisions that positively impact productivity, safety and commercial outcomes for both construction projects and the business in which they work.
- Leadership and Management Direct Delivery - Scotland
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Funding theme:
Training and Development
Funding topic:Leadership and managementProject lead:The OM GroupAmount awarded:£1,113,250Project summary:The OM Group was established over 14 years ago as a national provider of health and safety consultancy and training for the Construction and Build Environment sector. We have extensive real-life experience in the industry, which informs the training courses and programmes that we deliver. This allows us to provide relevant and authentic, practical advice and guidance to all our clients. Our approach is to ensure that employers in the industry understand the benefits of providing their front-line managers, Site Managers and Site Supervisors with Leadership and Management skills, to enable those individuals to make informed decisions that positively impact productivity, safety and commercial outcomes for both construction projects and the business in which they work
- Leadership and Management Direct Delivery - The OM Group
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Funding theme:
Training and Development
Funding topic:Leadership and managementProject lead:The OM GroupAmount awarded:£1,593,400Project summary:The OM Group was established over 14 years ago as a national provider of health and safety consultancy and training for the Construction and Build Environment sector. We have extensive real-life experience in the industry, which informs the training courses and programmes that we deliver. This allows us to provide relevant and authentic, practical advice and guidance to all our clients. Our approach is to ensure that employers in the industry understand the benefits of providing their front-line managers, Site Managers and Site Supervisors with Leadership and Management skills, to enable those individuals to make informed decisions that positively impact productivity, safety and commercial outcomes for both construction projects and the business in which they work
- Leadership and Management Direct Delivery - MKC Training
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Funding theme:
Training and Development
Funding topic:Leadership and managementProject lead:MKC TrainingAmount awarded:£2,166,095Project summary:MKC Training (MKCT) was originally formed in 2008 to provide skills training to the Royal Engineers at the Royal School of Military Engineering (Construction Engineer School) based in Medway, Kent. With considerable expertise in trade and management skills, gained over decades, we now provide a full range of award-winning learner-centric training services to construction and engineering businesses and other sectors, providing expertise in the full learning cycle from needs analysis through to delivery and evaluation.
- Leadership and Management Direct Delivery - Danny Sullivan and Sons Ltd
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Funding theme:
Training and Development
Funding topic:Leadership and managementProject lead:Danny Sullivan and Sons LtdAmount awarded:£1,686,690Project summary:As one of the UK’s leading labour suppliers working across all major UK Infrastructure Projects, the partnership between Danny Sullivan and Sons Ltd and Deere Apprenticeships Ltd believes we have the ability to engage with an array of employers from major Tier 1 Contractors to SME’s seeking to grow the competency and skillset of their workforce. Through utilisation of our collaborative resources and an aligned marketing strategy, we forecast strong engagement from both individuals and organisations seeking to avail of this brilliant CITB initiative to tackle the ever-present skills shortage in our industry.
- Brickwork Masterclasses
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Funding theme:
Careers
Funding topic:Changing industry culture, Productivity and new ways of working, Sectors and roles, Small employer supportProject lead:Home Builders federationAmount awarded:£258,450Project summary:Brickwork Masterclasses, a Home Building Skills Partnership initiative delivered by NHBC in partnership with the Association of Brickwork Contractors (ABC) and funded by CITB, are designed to deliver practical skills and knowledge on the most common brickwork issues found by our inspection teams. Delivered by our highly skilled and experienced NHBC Building Inspectors, we will discuss practical guidance on improving quality and standards and how to promote awareness of good practice on site. Sessions can be delivered on or near your site provided that a suitable room is available to seat the attendees, such as a large site office or canteen.
- Structural Concrete Alliance Training & Assessment Scheme
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Funding theme:
Training and development
Funding topic:Sectors and roles, Small employer supportProject lead:Structural Concrete AllianceAmount awarded:£18,550Project summary:To increase the number of assessors within specified sectors.
Assessors and IQAs will be recruited and trained to provide assessment resource for the trades covered under the Structural Concrete Alliance . Consequently , the number of assessors available in the industry and assessors via IQAs will increase, this will result in an increase in qualified leaners to NVQ standard linked to the three trade represented within the Alliance.
- Creating high quality on and off-site training courses for Bricklayers based on new standards
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Funding theme:
Training and development
Funding topic:Productivity and new ways of working, Sectors and roles, New qualifications and coursesProject lead:The Association of Brickwork ContractorsAmount awarded:£398,822Project summary:Creating high quality on and off-site training courses for Bricklayers, through the launch of 16 ATO delivered short duration training courses, provided by the ABC Assessment Centre.
The training courses will be written directly by bricklaying employers to target bricklayers on a nationwide scale. The areas of skill covered by the training courses have been determined by employers because of their relevancy to Modern Methods of Construction and to address the lack of skills seen from bricklayers and trainees on their sites.