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Nation Plans

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Overview

Following our Business Plan, our Nation Plans set out what activities CITB will focus on in England, Scotland and Wales to deliver the organisation’s priorities over the coming year.

And like our Business Plan, the nation plans focus on addressing three key challenges for the industry:

1. Responding to the skills demand

2. Developing the capacity and capability of construction training provision

3. Future skills needs

You can find more detail on these challenges by visiting our Business Plan.

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Our goals for the next year

To improve how the training and development system works in construction, so that more companies can access the high-quality training they need and reduce the level of skills gaps.

Nation Plan: England - highlights

Skills demands

Promoting construction careers information to young people, by:

● 10% increase in the number of people visiting Go Construct
● 5% increase in apprenticeship starts 1% increase in apprenticeship completion rates
● 1,000 apprentices matched to roles through Talentview Construction
● 4,000 taster opportunities available
● 200 learners starting Occupational Traineeships with employers

Routes to getting people into construction roles, by:

  • 5,400 onsite hub experiences delivered, 5,160 people either site ready or started a new job

Retaining the skilled workforce already in construction 

Training provision

Support for employers, including:

  • Help employers access the training they need through grants and funding, while delivering a simpler customer solution for accessing funding.
  • Grow and develop Training Groups and ‘Local Networks’ to support access to funding for SMEs

Develop high quality training for key industry skills, including:

  • Directly deliver cost effective, exemplary training at our National Construction College (NCC).
  • Continue to implement interventions and commissions focusing on the first four priority skills areas: Brickwork, Drylining, Cladding, Retrofit (Insulation). 

Shaping the future

Behavioural skills ​

  • Through Leadership and Management training/funding​

New Standards​

  • Fit for purpose and respond to needs​

T-Levels​

  • Working with Government & Industry

Read more, download the full CITB England Plan 2022-2023 (PDF, 384kb)

Nation Plan: Scotland - highlights

Skills demands

Promoting construction careers, measured by:

  • 10% increase in the number of people visiting GoConstruct

Routes to getting people into construction roles, measured by:

  • A minimum of 400 taster opportunities available
  • More than 370 experiences delivered through Scottish Academies for Construction Opportunities
  • More than 37% of candidates being Employment and Site Ready or job starters

​Improving apprenticeship recruitment and retention

  • Apprenticeship recruitment levels which surpass pre-pandemic levels
  • 3% increase in apprenticeship completion rates (current completion rate is 73%)

Training provision

Support for employers, including:

  • Help employers access the training they need through grants and funding, while delivering a simpler customer solution for accessing funding.

Develop high quality training for key industry skills, including:

  • Develop training opportunities for occupations which have limited provision in Scotland. These include:
    Brickwork, Cladding and Rendering, Scaffolding, Site Leadership.

Shaping the future

  • Developing Behavioral Skills, through Leadership & Management grant funded training ​
  • Work with employers to identify digital skills.  Developing Standards and Frameworks ​
  • Take the lead and partner with SDS, Colleges, SQA and Scottish Government to support apprenticeships ​
  • Continue transition work on new apprentice frameworks

Read more, download the full CITB Scotland Plan 2022-2023 (PDF, 680kb)

Nation Plan: Wales - highlights

Skills demands

We will deliver:​

  • See your Site participants​
  • Women into Construction events ​

We will facilitate:​

  • Build on Open Doors event successes​
  • Targeted National Apprentice Week events​

We will wncourgae:​

  • 30 Welsh STEM Ambassadors​
  • Increase number of entries to skills competitions by 10%​
  • Promote the Construction Virtual Environment Resource Training 

Training provision

We will deliver:

  • A complete solution for specialist niche apprenticeship training - successfully delivering 20-30 niche apprenticeships.
  • In response to employer demand, the current apprenticeship offer will be maintained and supported by the niche contract
  • An increase in employer engagement events, with at least one event per apprenticeship provider.

We will facilitate:

  • Increased awareness of CITB grants, products and funding – ensuring employers have access to the right support for their skills needs
  • Increase in the number of employers who are accessing training and benefitting from Training Group
    membership by 10%
  • Increase the number of successfully completed apprenticeship frameworks.

Shaping the future

  • CITB grant funding and Welsh Government funding rates agreed for New Apprenticeship Pathways​
  • Development of the Industrial Building Treatment Apprenticeship Framework​
  • New digital qualifications for the new construction apprenticeship framework​
  • New & revised training Standards 

Read more, download the full CITB Wales Plan 2022-2023 (PDF, 384kb)