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FIS Competency Toolkit
This Toolkit provides essential guidance and tools to support FIS Members in meeting new regulatory competence requirements, providing advice on CSCS, Competency Frameworks that support our sector and details information on how to create a Competency Management Plan.
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CSCS experiencing high call volumes
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Employers – our sector needs you
FIS is addressing the acute shortage of skilled drylining operatives in the fit-out sector by working with partners such as CITB, Jobcentreplus, Local Authority Councils and Colleges in delivering the FIS BuildBack Programme. We need employers to back the FIS...
New report explains BIM and Legal Contracts
On 28 February 2018 at the BIM Show Live in Newcastle, the new government-supported Winfield Rock Report was launched. The report, Overcoming the Legal and Contractual Barriers of BIM is co-authored by May Winfield and Sarah Rock and considers the position on levels,...



