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- Scottish Academy Construction Opportunities - Barnardos
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Funding theme:
Careers
Funding topic:Careers and recruitmentProject lead:BarnardosAmount awarded:£665,950Project 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.
- Scotland Tasters Commission
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Funding theme:
Careers
Funding topic:Careers and recruitmentProject lead:The Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce and ManufacturesAmount awarded:£280,000Project summary:This commission will develop, identify, evaluate, and increase the number and quality of work tasters specific to the construction industry in Scotland. The Tasters will be embedded into Scottish Careers processes. The Tasters will promote construction as an aspirational career path to support individuals make good career choices. This will include more people from a greater diverse background including those without a connection to construction are inspired to pursue a career in this Industry.
A suite of guidance documents will be developed to give clarity to employers on how to deliver a good quality taster including taster plans for large and small construction sites and across key skill areas. As part of the project 32 regions will be covered in the development and roll-out of Tasters to comply with Scottish Government legislation to provide support to isolated communities such as Shetland.
- Increasing Employer Engagement in Higher Level and Degree Apprenticeships
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Funding theme:
Innovation
Funding topic:Changing industry culture, Learning resources, Careers and recruitmentProject lead:Kier Group plcAmount awarded:£151,575Project 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.
- Building Blocks
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Funding theme:
Training and development
Funding topic:Careers and recruitmentProject lead:Sibbald Ltd.Amount awarded:£951,060Project summary:The Building Blocks project sits under the Structured Fund, Experiential Learning opportunity. It will deliver a sustainable experiential learning offer for Scotland, which will enable more universities to access the Constructionarium offer.
It will provide an expanded experiential learning offer for Scotland, which includes a static and mobile constructionarium, and will reach a wider range of beneficiaries. It will also provide an increase in the number of school teachers delivering Concrete in the Classroom to help feed into the talent pipeline for the sector.
- Construction Live: experiential learning for the construction industry
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Funding theme:
Training and development
Funding topic:Careers and recruitmentProject lead:Bridgwater & Taunton CollegeAmount awarded:£499,999Project summary:This project sits under the structured fund experiential learning opportunity and will deliver a sustainable experiential learning offer for England.
This will enable more universities to access the Construction Live offer, an increase in the number of universities engaged in Construction Live and an increase in the number of projects available to industry.
- Constructionarium Ltd – transition to a sustainable future
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Funding theme:
Training and development
Funding topic:Careers and recruitmentProject lead:Constructionarium LtdAmount awarded:£535,000Project summary:This project sits under the structured fund, experiential learning opportunity and will deliver a sustainable experiential learning offer for England.
This will enable more universities to access the Constructionarium offer and will result in an increase in the number of universities engaged in Constructionarium. The project will also create a new experiential learning scenario that can be shared with wider industry.
- Developing a Training and Accreditation Scheme for Ecological Clerks of Works
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Funding theme:
Training and development
Funding topic:Learning resources, Careers and recruitment, New qualifications and coursesProject lead:Balfour BeattyAmount awarded:£119,820Project summary:This project is the development of a training and accreditation scheme for ecological clerks of works on construction sites (Site Ecologists). Clients, contractors and the ecology profession will work collaboratively to agree the required competencies and set standards. A comprehensive training and assessment programme leading to accredited status will enable a sustainable supply of confident and well-trained ecological clerks of works able to meet the increasing supply needs of the construction industry.
- Matching construction theory with practice
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Funding theme:
Training and development
Funding topic:Careers and recruitmentProject lead:WRW Construction Ltd.Amount awarded:£1,129,346Project summary:The project has three key threads, addressing directly the school, FE and HE sectors.
In partnership with Microsoft, the first thread targeting primary school teachers will use the Minecraft Virtual construction scenario to stimulate and encourage school-age children to consider careers in the built environment. Strong support from Microsoft will lead to UK-wide Minecraft ‘clubs’ creating a nationwide exposure to STEM and the construction industry in particular.
A second thread will establish two fixed site ‘hub’ facilities enabling practical reinforcement and integration with students’ learning experience.
A third thread will implement a mobile facility to enable cost-effective engagement over a wider geographical area from each hub. Each mobile unit will provide typically three-day events based in FE/HE institutions.
- Mentoring for the construction industry (commission)
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Funding theme:
Training and development
Funding topic:Learning resources, Careers and recruitment, Small employer supportProject lead:Carmarthenshire Construction Training AssociationAmount awarded:£119,060Project summary:This project is focussed on mentoring in order to support the retention of new entrants.
The project will:
- Provide 100 new entrants with a mentor
- Train 100 Level 3 apprentices as mentors
- Train 100 industry representatives as mentors
- Produce two best practice guidebooks - one for mentors and one for mentees
- Produce a video case study.