Construction Qualification Strategy
Giving you the workers you need
- Are you fed up with workers having qualifications that don’t actually help your business in its day-to-day work?
- Are you fed up having to keep on supervising colleagues because they don’t have the skills necessary to do the job properly?
- Are you fed up with how our education system prepares youngsters for their first job in the construction industry?
In 2005, the Government gave us a unique opportunity to shape and modernise future qualifications for the construction industry so people who pass them have the full range of skills required for their work.
ConstructionSkills has taken the opportunity of the UK Sector Qualification Reform Programme to be one of the first Sector Skills Council’s working with the Regulatory Authorities for England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, awarding bodies and manufacturers to put together a new framework for the future structure of qualifications based on employer feedback about the current education and qualifications system.
What you need
Your feedback confirms that the current system for qualifications is not benefiting the construction industry as much as it should. You told us that it isn’t giving young people the skills they need to hold down a first job and that it is not giving existing workers the extra skills that employers need from their staff in order to help them run an efficient business.
Find out more
Download theConstruction Qualification Strategy(March 2007) which includes your valuable feedback.
How are we taking the Construction Qualification Strategy forward?
From the Construction Qualifications Strategy action plans have been drawn up for twenty ’strategy strands’ based on industry recommendations and priorities. These plans reflect the needs of the four home countries and the various industry sectors and are endorsed by ConstructionSkills’ standards and qualifications committees.
The Leitch Review proposes that employers and ConstructionSkills have a much stronger voice to establish a demand led vocational qualification system. So have your say and make sure that the Construction Qualifications Strategy and actions give you the workers you need.
Simply download an action plan, the programme and the feedback form below, once you have read through the plan and programme please let us know your thoughts via the email/faxback form. You can return the completed form to Carole Mountain by fax on 01485 577280 or email Carole.Mountain@cskills.org.
ConstructionSkills Action Plan 2008/9
Longer-term ConstructionSkills home nations’ Action Plans 2007 – 2010:
- Action plan – England 191kb PDF file
- Programme – England 31kb Excel file
- Action plan – Northern Ireland 195kb PDF file
- Programme – Northern Ireland 31kb Excel file
- Action plan – Scotland 150kb PDF file
- Programme – Scotland 30kb Excel file
- Action plan – Wales 184kb PDF file
- Programme – Wales 31kb Excel file
- Feedback form 19kb PDF file
We look forward to receiving your comments on these plans.
ConstructionSkills will continue to work with you to shape construction qualifications in order to give you the workers you need.
Related links:
To find out more about how we’re meeting your needs why not read about the:
- Diploma in Construction and the Built Environment (in England). Visit www.cbediploma.co.uk
- Sector Qualifications Reform Programme (SQRP) which is part of a broad reaching initiative to radically change the landscape of vocational qualifications in the UK
- Leitch Review of UK Skills which has recognised that giving employers a powerful voice to influence skills training provision is the best way to ensure that the construction industry gets the ‘fit for purpose’ training and skills development it needs.