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Abbey Access Training, Construction Skills Solutions,  Lindum Construction and a group of Lincolnshire Construction employers propose to join forces offering young people on the NEET register, Unemployed Women and Long Term Unemployed an innovative 3-staged engagement programme.

Building Growth South West will develop and deliver strategic promotional and pre-employment training programmes to support learners into a career in construction; bridging the gap and building pathways between third sector and community networks, training providers and employers.

This project aims to take the learnings and experiences of delivering the highly successful CITB funded BuildForce and adapt the model to create new and better pathways for all five cohorts.

However, this project will differ from BuildForce in that it will access unique software that will semantically link data from the supply side of all five cohorts and from the demand side of the construction industry (labour forecasts) in a way that creates the pathways for beneficiaries to achieve work related outcomes.

Construction Youth Trust will test and develop effective pathways into construction for harder-to-reach young people and create a comprehensive best practice toolkit that will provide employers, particularly SMEs and supply-chain companies, with proven methods of engaging, recruiting and retaining two of the priority groups: 

• young people not in education, training or work (NEET) or identified by the authorities as being at significant risk of becoming NEET,
• full-time learners currently studying construction and built environment diplomas.

Through a project that will research, develop and test new and existing approaches and pathways (e.g. engagement activities, work-readiness programmes, resources, coaching frameworks, support networks), we will support employers of all sizes, with a focus on supply-chain employers, to connect with NEET young people and full-time FE learners.

As well as prioritising young people who have historically been under-represented in the industry (i.e. people from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnicity (BAME) backgrounds and young women), we also want to reach young people who do not currently view employment in the construction industry favourably, and help them to realise the varied opportunities and entry routes available to them.

LBC will adopt a coordinated approach to up-scaling its existing services and extend the offering of this for a construction sector specific pathway to engage more women and long term unemployed into the Croydon construction sector.

It adopts a regional approach to extend its services and will also support construction employers to get better at recruiting from these hard to reach talent pools.

CS4L will provide a minimum of 1,500 engagement opportunities and a Pre-Employment course lasting up to 6 weeks for 150 people to enable them to become Construction Industry ready.

Furthermore, CS4L aims to ensure that a minimum of 46 outstanding ‘trainees’ from the courses secure immediate offers of employment.  

The consortium aims to ensure that a minimum of 25% of the trainees are female.

The programme will offer access to construction courses (a Level 1 Introduction to Construction and a CSCS card), functional skills support and most importantly provide a 2-week industry placement. 

This will be supported by an in-house Business Mentor, so they gain a comprehensive understanding of their chosen trades/ occupation.

This project will seek to design and develop a program of activities that would enable a suitable transition into the construction industry for the target group (Service leavers and Full-time Learners).

The program will involve training, placement, mentoring and support for the target groups to successful transition into employment into the construction industry.  One of the unique features of this project will be the development of online resources that will be freely available to construction industry companies designed to equip companies to attract and retain employees from the target group.

The online resources will also be available to FE and other training organisations to help them deliver suitable soft-skills content to their students. The project will provide a template that will make it easier for construction industry companies to directly employ the target group and support them without the involvement of third parties. As such, one of the key project deliverables will be the development of online resources to be freely available on a dedicated website.

This project will address an identified industry need to recruit and train 100 FTE ne, quality assessors to enable the efficient delivery of assessments for apprenticeships in Scotland.

Working in partnership with 23 of Scotland’s construction colleges, government agencies and private training providers, a coordinated approach in recruiting 100 FTE assessors will be managed and implemented by ESP applying a good geographical spread across CITB’s 7 regions.

“Passport to Construction” will be delivered across the six counties of North Wales.

Each programme will run for 6 weeks delivering work readiness and confidence building as well as developing practical construction related skills including sites visits and work placements on various construction sites across North Wales.  

There will be a tailored qualification called “Passport to Construction” which will be an Open College Network qualification. In addition, programmes will provide CSCS revision, mock tests and actual test.

Participants will gain practical “try a trade” work experience alongside work buddies that the project partners have trained from construction companies to provide work experience.

The 6 weeks will culminate in CV writing and job search sessions followed by a final day of mock interviews with industry bosses, a "Meet the Boss" session, an inspirational speaker and a celebration of their success.  

All beneficiaries will leave the programme with a personal development plan and clear next steps tailored to them.

Doncaster College have created a stepping stone route of pre-employment pathways, incorporating a collection of essential features blending the basic trade skills, with soft skills to prepare for the world of work.