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As the impact of COVID-19 on the construction industry becomes ever more apparent, the Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) is refreshing its Skills and Training Fund (STF) to provide more support for micro, small and medium sized businesses.

Today's key messages are on online Site Safety training and a checklist for Apprentice Safety on Site.

Today's key messages are: repeating the important information about our levy suspension, take-up of advanced apprenticeship grants; the Government’s Self-employment income support scheme and CLC site operating procedures.

Today's key messages are on Apprenticeships, the CITB Levy, Site Safety Plus, a new employer support database and a monthly construction competition for schoolchildren across England, Scotland and Wales.

At CITB we are focused on skills and training and during this time we will be doing all we can to support the industry to protect those skills for when things return to normal.

A project has launched to recruit and train 100 new construction assessors across all of Scotland’s construction Colleges.

CITB Strategy and Policy Director Steve Radley, said: “CITB cautiously welcomes lowering the salary threshold for skilled migrants, increasing the number of construction occupations eligible to work in the UK, and the commitment to monitor and respond to skills shortages.

For National Apprenticeship Week 2020, we hear from the employers at the forefront of apprenticeship delivery.

CITB welcomes the recommendations in the Migration Advisory Committee report: A Points-Based System and Salary Thresholds for Immigration. Read our response.

Senior members of the construction industry are being invited to apply to join the Scotland Nation Council for the Construction Industry Training Board (CITB).