We’re now ConstructionSkills
From 30 March 2007, we will simply be known as ConstructionSkills.
Since becoming a Sector Skills Council three years ago, we have made significant strides and improvements to the value and service we offer our customers. We have become a simpler organisation, easier and faster to deal with and much closer to our customers needs:
- We are delivering improved safety and a better trained workforce.
- We are promoting a positive image of the industry, increasing the number of recruits into the industry and the number of apprentices completing their qualifications,
- We are helping the industry to wield more influence, to spot and respond to trends more effectively and to achieve more than would be possible for individual companies.
- And at the same time, we have cut bureaucracy to make us quicker and simpler to deal with and easier for people to benefit from what we offer.
We will still provide the same range of products and service as before – and indeed will be launching new ones – only now they will be branded ConstructionSkills.
The move to ConstructionSkills represents an exciting future for us and reflects the changes we have been making as an organisation.
Why are we changing our name?
CITB-ConstructionSkills became a Sector Skills Council partner three years ago. Increasingly, more and more of the work we do is SSC work, underpinned by our levy. Being an SSC supported by the levy is good news for you - you get the best of both worlds: we can influence government policy and funding on your behalf, while the levy enables us to deliver on the ground.
Why drop the 'CITB' from our name?
The move to ConstructionSkills, supported by the ITB status, is not a change in direction, but the next step in an ongoing transition towards a more modern and ‘customer focused’ organisation coming about through a modernisation programme to improve efficiencies and effectiveness.
The only exception is our Levy/Grant activity, which is the one area where we will still be known as CITB-ConstructionSkills in order to reflect our Industry Training Board (ITB) status and ring fence this activity for those employers in scope to the Industrial Training Act 1982.
How will the transition take place?
We have been using the ConstructionSkills logo for the last three years and it already appears on much of our literature. As for literature still displaying the CITB-ConstructionSkills logo, when these run out we will be using the ConstructionSkills logo on the new versions.
We are changing our web and email addresses too. Our web address from April 2nd will be www.cskills.org and will contain all the information you are used to, in the same format as it has been on www.citb-constructionskills.co.uk. The new address will run alongside the old address until July when the site at www.cskills.org will be completely re-launched, providing an improved online service to our customers and employers. This means that you are still likely to see references to CITB-ConstructionSkills on the current website until the relaunch.
Our e-mail addresses will follow the format
forename.surname@cskills.org, but old e-mail addresses will run in tandem for at least 3 months so there is no risk of any emails being lost.
What is the end aim?
The outlook for ConstructionSkills is to move as quickly as possible to finance all of our activities. These include promoting careers in construction, managing apprentices, training specialists and providing qualifications and certification services without needing support from the Levy. The aim is that we can pay out 100% of the levy in grants to employers.
