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Tens of thousands more into construction – CITB’s Strategic Plan 2021-25

Supporting training and retraining to rebuild after the recovery, improving productivity and making it easier to help employers bring in apprentices and other new entrants are key elements of CITB’s Strategic Plan, launched today.

Act now or waste a generation of potential

A blog by Steve Radley, CITB Strategy and Policy Director. This article first appeared in Construction News.

Scottish construction employers help shape future of apprenticeships in survey response

The survey, conducted in collaboration with the Scottish Construction Modern Apprenticeship Task Force, sought to understand the views of employers on their immediate and longer term plans, and received over 600 responses.

CITB extends support for apprentices through Covid-19

CITB is offering support to help find a new employer for any displaced apprentice as part of a raft of new measures to keep skills within industry.

Covid-19: CITB chief exec update - 16 September 2020

Today’s email announces the publication of our Annual Review showing how we supported the construction industry over 2019-20. There is a reminder about claiming for training against updated Standards, an update on the Degree Placement Work Experience Grant, and invitations to support the Construction Talent Retention Scheme and to join the Levy Strategy Committee.

How Covid and Carillion can't stop this apprentice

More than two years on from the collapse of Carillion, we talk to Billy Nuttall, an apprentice from Bristol.

Thousands more SMEs set to pay no CITB Levy for 2021; CITB confirms halving of Levy rates

Thousands of construction SMEs are set to pay no Levy at all for 2021-22, under new CITB proposals submitted to the Government this week.

Covid-19: CITB chief exec update - 10 September 2020

Today’s email contains details about CITB’s Levy Proposals and Strategic Plan, as well as an update on the Leadership and Management Fund.

Stewart Milne’s 1,678 hours of training amid Covid-19 – and counting

Scottish housebuilder Stewart Milne completes 1,678 hours of online training during lockdown.

Covid-19: CITB chief exec update - 2 September 2020

Today’s email contains a reminder about setting up your interest-free direct debit; news on the opening of the National Construction Colleges (NCC); and an update on the current uptake of the Training Group GET Fund.