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- Scottish Academy Construction Opportunities - Barnardos
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Funding theme:
Careers
Funding topic:Careers and recruitmentProject lead:BarnardosAmount awarded:£557,612Project summary:Barnado’s has established links with employers Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE), Balfour Beatty and Kier and all the Construction group networks in the Highlands which they will utilise to train and support individuals into employment. Barnardo’s Works ETS has specialist knowledge and vast experience in meeting the needs of its clients to help them progress and evolve in their employment. Balfour Beatty is already working in collaboration with Barnardo’s Works through its Community Benefit initiative via its contract with the Scottish Prison Service. Through the SACO project we will offer Regular “touch points” - telephone/e-mail, formally recorded reviews and face to face contact visits at various points of the new entrants journey, mentor support – the offer of delivery of mentor training to employers and new managers to assist with supporting a new entrant into employment.
- Virtual Taster
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Funding theme:
Careers
Funding topic:Careers and recruitmentProject lead:Careers Collective LtdAmount awarded:£29,950Project summary:The Virtual tasters project will develop a standard and quality that positively promotes construction as an aspirational career path and is engaging and informative to support individuals to consider a career in construction.
Careers Collective Ltd will work in close collaboration with Education providers Experience Hubs to ensure the virtual tasters are aligned to their needs, and the outputs from this commission can be successfully incorporated into the Onsite Experience programme and that virtual tasters can be rolled-out to a wider audience within the construction industry.
- Leadership and Management Direct Delivery - North of England
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Funding theme:
Training and Development
Funding topic:Leadership and managementProject lead:The OM GroupAmount awarded:£1,871,700Project summary:The OM Group was established over 14 years ago as a national provider of health and safety consultancy and training for the Construction and Build Environment sector. We have extensive real-life experience in the industry, which informs the training courses and programmes that we deliver. This allows us to provide relevant and authentic, practical advice and guidance to all our clients. Our approach is to ensure that employers in the industry understand the benefits of providing their front-line managers, Site Managers and Site Supervisors with Leadership and Management skills, to enable those individuals to make informed decisions that positively impact productivity, safety and commercial outcomes for both construction projects and the business in which they work.
- Leadership and Management Direct Delivery - Scotland
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Funding theme:
Training and Development
Funding topic:Leadership and managementProject lead:The OM GroupAmount awarded:£1,113,250Project summary:The OM Group was established over 14 years ago as a national provider of health and safety consultancy and training for the Construction and Build Environment sector. We have extensive real-life experience in the industry, which informs the training courses and programmes that we deliver. This allows us to provide relevant and authentic, practical advice and guidance to all our clients. Our approach is to ensure that employers in the industry understand the benefits of providing their front-line managers, Site Managers and Site Supervisors with Leadership and Management skills, to enable those individuals to make informed decisions that positively impact productivity, safety and commercial outcomes for both construction projects and the business in which they work
- Leadership and Management Direct Delivery - Wales
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Funding theme:
Training and Development
Funding topic:Leadership and managementProject lead:The OM GroupAmount awarded:£709,000Project summary:The OM Group was established over 14 years ago as a national provider of health and safety consultancy and training for the Construction and Build Environment sector. We have extensive real-life experience in the industry, which informs the training courses and programmes that we deliver. This allows us to provide relevant and authentic, practical advice and guidance to all our clients. Our approach is to ensure that employers in the industry understand the benefits of providing their front-line managers, Site Managers and Site Supervisors with Leadership and Management skills, to enable those individuals to make informed decisions that positively impact productivity, safety and commercial outcomes for both construction projects and the business in which they work.
- Leadership and Management Direct Delivery - The OM Group
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Funding theme:
Training and Development
Funding topic:Leadership and managementProject lead:The OM GroupAmount awarded:£1,593,400Project summary:The OM Group was established over 14 years ago as a national provider of health and safety consultancy and training for the Construction and Build Environment sector. We have extensive real-life experience in the industry, which informs the training courses and programmes that we deliver. This allows us to provide relevant and authentic, practical advice and guidance to all our clients. Our approach is to ensure that employers in the industry understand the benefits of providing their front-line managers, Site Managers and Site Supervisors with Leadership and Management skills, to enable those individuals to make informed decisions that positively impact productivity, safety and commercial outcomes for both construction projects and the business in which they work
- Leadership and Management Direct Delivery - MKC Training
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Funding theme:
Training and Development
Funding topic:Leadership and managementProject lead:MKC TrainingAmount awarded:£2,166,095Project summary:MKC Training (MKCT) was originally formed in 2008 to provide skills training to the Royal Engineers at the Royal School of Military Engineering (Construction Engineer School) based in Medway, Kent. With considerable expertise in trade and management skills, gained over decades, we now provide a full range of award-winning learner-centric training services to construction and engineering businesses and other sectors, providing expertise in the full learning cycle from needs analysis through to delivery and evaluation.
- Leadership and Management Direct Delivery - Danny Sullivan and Sons Ltd
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Funding theme:
Training and Development
Funding topic:Leadership and managementProject lead:Danny Sullivan and Sons LtdAmount awarded:£1,686,690Project summary:As one of the UK’s leading labour suppliers working across all major UK Infrastructure Projects, the partnership between Danny Sullivan and Sons Ltd and Deere Apprenticeships Ltd believes we have the ability to engage with an array of employers from major Tier 1 Contractors to SME’s seeking to grow the competency and skillset of their workforce. Through utilisation of our collaborative resources and an aligned marketing strategy, we forecast strong engagement from both individuals and organisations seeking to avail of this brilliant CITB initiative to tackle the ever-present skills shortage in our industry.
- Structural Concrete Alliance Training & Assessment Scheme
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Funding theme:
Training and development
Funding topic:Sectors and roles, Small employer supportProject lead:Structural Concrete AllianceAmount awarded:£18,550Project summary:To increase the number of assessors within specified sectors.
Assessors and IQAs will be recruited and trained to provide assessment resource for the trades covered under the Structural Concrete Alliance . Consequently , the number of assessors available in the industry and assessors via IQAs will increase, this will result in an increase in qualified leaners to NVQ standard linked to the three trade represented within the Alliance.
- Timewise: Designing Flexible Career Pathways in Construction
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Funding theme:
Careers
Funding topic:Changing industry culture, Productivity and new ways of working, Learning resources, Careers and recruitment, Leadership and management, Small employer supportProject lead:Build UKAmount awarded:£30,000Project summary:The Timewise: Designing Flexible Career Pathways in Construction project will work with several major contractors and their supply chains to gain new insight into how to make flexible working work in the construction industry, by designing and piloting new approaches to flexible working construction sites and in HQ offices, in order to evaluate, codify and share insights to create roadmap for wider change in the industry.