Live funded projects

Project Name: Virtual Tasters

Contracted Partners: Careers Collective Ltd

This project positively promotes construction as an aspirational career path and supports individuals to make good career choices via a three-minute pre-taster video and supporting learning materials.

Watch the video Go Construct and CITB Explore Construction: Build an Exciting Future

For more information please visit Careers Collective Ltd.

Project Name: Scotland Tasters

Contracted Partners: The Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce and Manufactures

This project positively promotes construction as an aspirational career path and supports individuals to make good career choices via a suite of guidance documents 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.

For more information please visit Construction Work Tasters.

Project Name: Brickwork Masterclasses

Contracted Partners: Home Builders Federation (HBF) and NHBC Building Inspectors

This project delivers sessions that offer practical guidance on improving quality and promote awareness of good practice in brickwork.

For more information visit Fully funded Brickwork Masterclass - NHBC Shop

Project Name: Brickwork Upskilling

Contracted Partners: The ABC Assessment Centre

High quality on and off-site training courses for Bricklayers, through the delivery of 16 short duration training courses offered to further education and skilled workers. Support the training of further education tutors to enable continuous delivery post funding.

For more information visit: Bricklaying Short Courses - The ABC Assessment Centre

Project Name: Leadership and Management Direct Delivery

Contracted Partners: The OM Group and MKC Training Services Ltd

CITB is investing £10.5 million to offer fully funded construction specific Leadership and Management training courses and qualifications across the UK, as part of the support needs identified by industry.

The commission, set up and awarded in December 2022, will run until 31st March 2026, providing 10,500 ILM leadership and management courses to front-line managers, site supervisors and site managers in England, Scotland and Wales. There is a fee of just £154 to register with the awarding body.

Included:

• Pre-defined package of 5 modules that cover the core learnings needed to be a great leader
• Measurable results: workplace-based assessment ensures new skills are effectively transferred to your business
• The 10,500 places have been allocated across the whole country
• Achievement of a recognised qualification that is transferable
• The courses can be used as personal development for someone not quite ready to move into a supervisory role but is part of their long-term career ambitions
• ILM level 3 Leadership and Management Practice for the Construction and Built Environment Sector Qualification
• The qualification can be used to apply for a White (academic) CSCS Card.

The fully funded qualification places are being provided by the following training partners:

The OM Group

Providing online and in person courses across England, Scotland and Wales. For more information visit their website.

MKC Training Services Ltd

Providing online and in person courses across England, Scotland and Wales. For more information visit their website.

For further information about the leadership and management training routes that CITB offers, visit Leadership and Management Training with CITB.

Project Name: GIRI Training Commission

Contracted Partners: BAM Nuttall Ltd, Vinci Plc, Kier Infrastructure and Overseas Ltd, and VolkerStevin Infrastructure Ltd

The GIRI (Get It Right Initiative) Training commission is to support and four employers to become GIRI Approved Training Providers thus equipping appropriate internal trainers with the skills, knowledge, and tools to deliver GIRI accredited training to approximately 5,000 individuals within their own workforce and supply chain. The commission will also provide an opportunity to generate and collect evidence of the benefits of the training in terms of the impact on the productivity and cost and frequency of error on projects and organisations.

GIRIs accredited training scheme directly targets the root causes of error and empowers companies, project teams, and individuals to get it right first time. GIRI courses enable employees to develop the right skills to collaboratively understand, pre-empt and avoid error in their daily work.

The three streams of training are:

1. Leadership training - Strategies to eliminate error, for leaders of organisations and leaders of construction projects
2. Training across interfaces - Techniques to avoid interface errors in design and construction, for managers and designers
3. Supervisory and management skills - Supervision and planning skills to prevent errors during construction, for site supervisors and managers.

For more information please visit:

• GIRI Training Commission - Vinci PLC
• GIRI Training Commission - BAM Nuttall Ltd
• GIRI Training Commission - Kier Infrastructure and Overseas Ltd
• GIRI Training Commission - VolkerStevin Infrastructure Limited
  
  

Project Name: Equality, Diversity, and Inclusivity

Contracted Partners: Supply Chain Sustainability School

This project is delivering a range of training that promotes Equality, Diversity, and Inclusivity. The Supplier has been tasked with delivering the following:

• Making EDI Materials available to all Businesses operating within the construction industry;
• Driving increased uptake across all areas of industry including different subsectors and sizes of business;
• Reviewing and improving EDI Materials to ensure they are suitable for SMEs; and
• Producing SMEs/Micro case studies that demonstrate the benefits of inclusive recruitment to small businesses

For more information visit EDI Commission or SCS - FIR.

Project Name: England Construction Opportunities

Contracted Partners: Abbey Access Centre Ltd, Barking Riverside Ltd, Gement, Hampshire County Council, Landau Ltd, NFRC, WMCA

This commission will focus on the support provided in the workplace during a new entrants first year in construction. This will be through job coaching, mentoring, employer engagement, peer and buddy systems or other appropriate support measures to improve the quality and retention of new entrants.

For more information visit

• Abbey Access Centre Ltd
• Barking Riverside Ltd
• Gement
• Hampshire County Council
• Landau Ltd
• NFRC
• WMCA
  
  

Project Name: Scottish Academy for Construction Opportunities

Contracted Partners: Barnardo’s , Comhairle Nan Eilean Siar

This commission for Scotland is to provide support to individuals entering the construction workforce to overcome any initial challenges they may face and to provide ongoing in-work support over the duration of the commission to improve the quality and longevity of work outcomes for participants.

For more information visit

• Barnardo’s
• Comhairle Nan Eilean Siar
  
  

Project Name: Careers in Hire

Contracted Partners: Hire Association Europe

This project focuses on developing entry routes and raising awareness of the sector to people who had never considered hire as a viable career option, including influencing decision makers through a comprehensive marketing/promotional campaign.

For more information on Careers in Hire visit Training & Apprenticeships (hae.org.uk)

Project Name: Onsite Experience Hubs

In 2019 CITB launched the Onsite Experience Hubs to help address the complex recruitment challenges facing the construction industry in England and Wales. The Hubs aims are to deliver new entrants to the industry that are job-ready and have had an onsite experience.

For more information visit the links below:

England Partners

Onsite Experience Hubs in England - Six onsite experience hubs are in operation.

Wales Partners

Onsite Experience Hubs in Wales - Three onsite experience hubs are in operation.

Project Name: Roofing Masterclasses

Contracted Partners: Home Builders Federation (HBF) and NHBC Building Inspectors

This project will develop and deliver masterclass sessions that offer practical guidance on improving quality and promote awareness of good practice in roofing.

Project Name: RoofCERT

Contracted Partners: NFRC

This project has established and is promoting industry wide standards for all roofing disciplines through an "Accredited Roofer" programme, named RoofCERT, this will act as a skills baseline for the sector and will professionalise the industry.

For more information visit here or the RoofCERT website