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Skills for Growth Mark Farrar, Chief Executive, CITB- ConstructionSkills

Skills for Growth Mark Farrar, Chief Executive, CITB- ConstructionSkills. October 2012. What we do. Labour market & other research Occupational standards Advice to companies National Construction College Assessment & testing Careers advice/apprentice recruitment

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Skills for Growth Mark Farrar, Chief Executive, CITB- ConstructionSkills

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  1. Skills for Growth Mark Farrar, Chief Executive, CITB-ConstructionSkills October 2012

  2. What we do • Labour market & other research • Occupational standards • Advice to companies • National Construction College • Assessment & testing • Careers advice/apprentice recruitment • Industry funded grant scheme

  3. Who we work with - you Who we work with Public housing Non-Housing R&M Private housing • Construction industry structure 2011 Infrastructure Housing R&M Public Non-Housing Commercial Industrial

  4. Job losses • 45,000 jobs go this year • Public sector falls off a cliff • -25% public housing • -24% public non-housing • A “lost generation” for • construction? • 16-19 year olds down 52% on 2008

  5. Reductions in Apprenticeships

  6. So why construction for growth? • £2.84 return for every £1 • Higher job return • 40% more than manufacturing • 75% more than financial services • Local jobs • 90p spent locally per £1 wages

  7. Size matters 4,500 2,100 1,200 2,600 5,000 3,500 3,700 5,700 Number of new recruits required annually 4,300 1,800 4,500 7,200

  8. Investing in jobs – £1bn gives • Industrial c. 11,000 • Infrastructure c. 15,000 • Public Housing c.18,000 • Housing R&M c. 32,000

  9. New Nuclear Build • Eight sites • £1.5bn per year output • 17,000 FTE peak (2018) • £100 million training • NESA – skills alliance

  10. New - potential of Green Deal • Up to £3bn • Avoiding the Aussie • experience • Cut the Carbon and • Green Deal Skills Alliance

  11. Building Information Modelling • People – not just software • Training needed – supply • chains • Industry/Government • leadership needed

  12. Supporting local growth and jobs today • LEP engagement • Public procurement • Our ‘client-based’ approach • University Technical Colleges

  13. So, • The industry can create • significant growth & jobs • Opportunity to embed new • approaches into the national • skills system • Government & Industry working • together can give more young people a chance

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