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Digital leaders: taking action on construction’s digital future (Giving leaders the skills to drive digital change)
Funding theme:

Training and development

Funding topic:
Changing industry culture, Learning resources, New qualifications and courses, Productivity and new ways of working, Small employer support, Leadership and management
Project lead:
National Federation of Builders
Amount awarded:
£103,767
Project summary:

The project will deliver digital change in construction companies by upskilling leaders by developing three leadership training programmes that adopt an action learning approach. 
This method delivers change through achievable cycles of learn / test / do / review that allow leaders to undertake gradual stages of digital adoption, learn through the process but also taking practical steps to digitalise during the training. These programmes will increase adaptive capability and approaches to unlock and exploit digital opportunities within the sector.

Each training programme is proposed to be accredited with ILM at L3 (team level); L5 (departmental level); L7 (organisational level). The project aims to ensure training is eligible for grant funding as an exit strategy. 48 construction companies will each put two leaders through the programme. This will help to unlock digital change at strategic and operational levels of a business.

After the project participating employers will have taken measurable steps to digitalisation. The qualifications will be available for industry to access and benefit from. NFB will follow process to ensure they are eligible for grant funding.

Establishing Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) - Giving leaders the skills to drive digital change
Funding theme:

Training and development

Funding topic:
Changing industry culture, Learning resources, Productivity and new ways of working, Digital and new technology, Small employer support, Leadership and management
Project lead:
Willmott Dixon
Amount awarded:
£198,910
Project summary:

The project will deliver skills and knowledge to enable business leaders across the supply chain to embed digital ledger technology (DLT / block chain) by demonstrating the business case for doing so, as well as practical digital concepts and methods. It will provide guidance on enhancements to existing processes and behaviours to enable this technology to be adopted.

The project will establish a network of champions and pathfinders across the supply chain to aid communication and engagement supporting the validation of digital ledger technology. It will develop training content that will upskill construction leaders across the supply chain in how to fully unlock this technology.

After the project, participating employers will have taken measurable steps to digitalisation. A white paper will report on the training outcomes and provide best practice guidance on how to embed DLT in the supply chain. The training materials use to achieve this will be made freely available to industry.

Bridge the Gap into Construction (Pathways into Construction - NEETs, long term unemployed and women)
Funding theme:

Careers

Funding topic:
Careers and recruitment
Project lead:
Abbey Access Centre Ltd
Amount awarded:
£604,800
Project summary:

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.

BuildForce (Pathways into Construction - service leavers)
Funding theme:

Careers

Funding topic:
Learning resources
Project lead:
Lendlease
Amount awarded:
£1,012,116
Project summary:

BuildForce - Veterans will deliver a service to the veteran community (who left military service at least a year ago) and to construction employers. The aim of the service will be to help veterans “get jobs in construction and get into training which leads to jobs in construction”. 

  • BuildForce will provide the wraparound service (finding, screening, supporting and brokering candidates into work experience and into employment)  with UCEM delivering three activities for BuildForce; developing more accessible and inclusive learning pathways to meet the needs of industry
  • Collaboration with MHS (Mental Health and Support) Training and Consultancy Limited (CITB approved trainer) will roll out the innovative Lendlease and MHS pilot of providing 1-2-1 mental health first aid support to the beneficiaries and supporting them in getting more help if required.
Building Growth South West (Pathways into Construction - NEETs, long term unemployed, service leavers, women, full time learners)
Funding theme:

Careers

Funding topic:
Careers and recruitment
Project lead:
YTKO Ltd
Amount awarded:
£682,878
Project summary:

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.

Building Pathways (Pathways into Construction - NEETs, long term unemployed, service leavers, women and full time learners)
Funding theme:

Careers

Funding topic:
Small employer support
Project lead:
Building Pathways Ltd, previously 'Ethos VO Ltd'
Amount awarded:
£413,104
Project summary:

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.

Building young lives through construction careers (Pathways into Construction - NEETs and full time learners)
Funding theme:

Careers

Funding topic:
Careers and recruitment
Project lead:
Construction Youth Trust
Amount awarded:
£537,500
Project summary:

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.

Construct Croydon: Improving Pathways for Women and LTU seeking construction employment (Pathways into Construction)
Funding theme:

Careers

Funding topic:
Careers and recruitment
Project lead:
London Borough of Croydon
Amount awarded:
£391,354
Project summary:

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.

Construction Skills for Life (Pathways into Construction - NEETs and women)
Funding theme:

Careers

Funding topic:
Careers and recruitment, Changing industry culture
Project lead:
EN:Able Futures C.I.C.
Amount awarded:
£450,327
Project summary:

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.

Development and delivery of a pathway into construction industry framework for Service Leavers and full-time learners (Pathways into Construction)
Funding theme:

Careers

Funding topic:
Careers and recruitment
Project lead:
Leeds Beckett University
Amount awarded:
£467,520
Project summary:

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.

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