Business Plan 2024-25
Over the coming year we’re investing over £267m to support British construction. CITB’s business plan will build on our achievements to date, and our work will focus on tackling three key priority areas:
- Inform and enable diverse and skilled people into construction
- Develop a training and skills system to meet current and future needs
- Support the industry to train and develop its workforce
Our three key priority areas
Inform and enable diverse and skilled people into construction
Construction needs a stronger pipeline of talent to work towards closing the skills shortage and our interventions aim to remove the barriers to attracting new talent.
Our Plan focuses on attracting a broader range of people into our industry and providing more direct help to employers to recruit and retain the people they need, now and in the future. Our approach also helps employers improve business sustainability by boosting productivity.
Develop a training and skills system to meet current and future needs
The skills system is critical to employers and industry’s ability to train. It needs to evolve to meet construction’s current and future needs.
To do this we will establish an industry-owned definition of competence and identify alternative industry entry routes.
Support the industry to train and develop its workforce
With a strong pipeline of work and new demands that come with a rapidly changing and modernising industry, we will invest in the existing workforce and make sure that training provision works for industry.
Training must be affordable, high quality, and accessible for all, developing the competence of individuals and improving the skills base of businesses.
Our work will particularly focus on improving the accessibility of training for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
Streamlining how we measure success
We will measure our performance in delivering this Plan against three key outcome measures aligned to our Purpose: to support the construction industry to have a skilled, competent and inclusive workforce, now and in the future.
- 15% increase in the number of new entrants to the industry
- 14% increase in the number of employers supported to train and upskill their workforce
- 13% increase in the number of individuals supported to train and upskill.
This simpler measurement system will provide the ability to track progress against our vision and mission and identify where we need to adjust our plans to improve our performance to deliver for the construction industry. All our activities and interventions will contribute towards the achievement of at least one of the three measures.
How we will work with our partners
Employers
We will continue to work with employers in all three nations to encourage and support skills and training uptake. Alongside the initiatives planned for this year, employers will be able to access CITB in the following ways:
Nation Councils
Our Nation Councils are a key part of our governance and ensure we have a feedback loop from employers in all three nations to our Board at every meeting. This makes sure that we collaborate and consult with industry to meet the needs of employers in England, Scotland, and Wales.
Prescribed Organisations and Federations
Our strong and positive working partnerships with Prescribed Organisations and Federations are key to achieving our Plan, and they will continue to play an important role in the development and review of standards.
Read the Business Plan
