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Leadership and Management Direct Delivery - Scotland
Funding theme:

Training and Development

Funding topic:
Leadership and management
Project lead:
The OM Group
Amount awarded:
£1,113,250
Project 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
Funding theme:

Training and Development

Funding topic:
Leadership and management
Project lead:
The OM Group
Amount awarded:
£709,000
Project 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
Funding theme:

Training and Development

Funding topic:
Leadership and management
Project lead:
The OM Group
Amount awarded:
£1,593,400
Project 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
Funding theme:

Training and Development

Funding topic:
Leadership and management
Project lead:
MKC Training
Amount awarded:
£2,166,095
Project 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
Funding theme:

Training and Development

Funding topic:
Leadership and management
Project lead:
Danny Sullivan and Sons Ltd
Amount awarded:
£1,686,690
Project 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.

Creating high quality on and off-site training courses for Bricklayers based on new standards
Funding theme:

Training and development

Funding topic:
Productivity and new ways of working, Sectors and roles, New qualifications and courses
Project lead:
The Association of Brickwork Contractors
Amount awarded:
£398,822
Project summary:

Creating high quality on and off-site training courses for Bricklayers, through the launch of 16 ATO delivered short duration training courses, provided by the ABC Assessment Centre.

The training courses will be written directly by bricklaying employers to target bricklayers on a nationwide scale. The areas of skill covered by the training courses have been determined by employers because of their relevancy to Modern Methods of Construction and to address the lack of skills seen from bricklayers and trainees on their sites.

Establishing Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) - Giving leaders the skills to drive digital change
Funding theme:

Training and development

Funding topic:
Changing industry culture, Learning resources, Productivity and new ways of working, Digital and new technology, Small employer support, Leadership and management
Project lead:
Willmott Dixon
Amount awarded:
£198,910
Project summary:

The project will deliver skills and knowledge to enable business leaders across the supply chain to embed digital ledger technology (DLT / block chain) by demonstrating the business case for doing so, as well as practical digital concepts and methods. It will provide guidance on enhancements to existing processes and behaviours to enable this technology to be adopted.

The project will establish a network of champions and pathfinders across the supply chain to aid communication and engagement supporting the validation of digital ledger technology. It will develop training content that will upskill construction leaders across the supply chain in how to fully unlock this technology.

After the project, participating employers will have taken measurable steps to digitalisation. A white paper will report on the training outcomes and provide best practice guidance on how to embed DLT in the supply chain. The training materials use to achieve this will be made freely available to industry.

Establishing Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) - Giving leaders the skills to drive digital change
Funding theme:

Training and development

Funding topic:
Changing industry culture, Productivity and new ways of working, Digital and new technology, Learning resources, Leadership and management, Small employer support
Project lead:
Willmott Dixon
Amount awarded:
£198,908
Project summary:

The project will deliver skills and knowledge to enable business leaders across the supply chain to embed digital ledger technology (DLT / block chain) by demonstrating the business case for doing so, as well as practical digital concepts and methods. It will provide guidance on enhancements to existing processes and behaviours to enable this technology to be adopted.

The project will establish a network of champions and pathfinders across the supply chain to aid communication and engagement supporting the validation of digital ledger technology. It will develop training content that will upskill construction leaders across the supply chain in how to fully unlock this technology.

After the project, participating employers will have taken measurable steps to digitalisation. A white paper will report on the training outcomes and provide best practice guidance on how to embed DLT in the supply chain. The training materials use to achieve this will be made freely available to industry.

Building Mental Health
Funding theme:

Innovation

Funding topic:
Changing industry culture, Small employer support, Leadership and management
Project lead:
Laing O'Rourke
Amount awarded:
£1,000,000
Project summary:

The project will increase the awareness of mental health within the construction sector by training 288 Mental Health first Aid practitioners (instructors) who in turn will train two-day mental health First Aiders within the sector.


The project will establish a strong framework of instructors and mental health first aiders that will help tackle this increasing issue within the construction sector. In addition the programme will see attitudes to first aid improve and the stigma reduce and workers being able to discuss their mental health.

Increasing Employer Engagement in Higher Level and Degree Apprenticeships
Funding theme:

Innovation

Funding topic:
Changing industry culture, Learning resources, Careers and recruitment
Project lead:
Kier Group plc
Amount awarded:
£151,575
Project summary:

The project will pilot employer engagement activities and individual support to potential new entrant apprentices with a priority focus on under-represented groups.  Apprentices will be connected to construction employers and offered workplace site visits, one-to-one interactions and work experience. 

The aim of the pilot is to develop new resources and guidance to support employers to recruit and inspire a diverse range of new entrants into the industry via the Higher Level Apprenticeship route.