News
Increased grant for drylining apprenticeships
CITB-registered employers can now receive an additional £2,000 on top of the existing grant (£2,500 per year for attendance and £3,500 for achievement) for Dry Lining Apprenticeships that started from 1 April 2022 onwards. This is applicable for employers in each of...
New CITB Skills and Training Fund for subcontractors
There is a new £2.5k Skills and Training Funding opportunity for Employers with CIS only (No PAYE). This is an enhancement to the Skills and Training Funds currently available: Skills and Training Fund funding from £2,500 to £25,000 over a 12‐month period for...
Training qualification for dryliners working on house building
FIS worked with NOCN to create a much needed training qualification for Dryliners working on house building projects. Recent information received from NOCN shows there are 24 Centres approved to deliver with 40 Tutors and 37 Assessors assigned to the qualification. ...
SkillBuild National Finalists 2022 announced and FIS members dominate
After coming first in their regional qualifiers over 85 finalists will compete in the finals of SkillBuild 2022. Described as “the UK’s construction’s Olympics”, SkillBuild will be delivered by CITB in conjunction with WorldSkills and will take place at Edinburgh...
Construction Product Availability Statement from the CLC
Construction Product Availability: 17 October 2022 Statement from John Newcomb, CEO of the Builders Merchants Federation and Peter Caplehorn, CEO of the Construction Products Association, co-chairs of the Construction Leadership Council’s Product Availability working...
Lens Blog: Getting Paid
FIS Consultant Len Bunton continues with the theme of getting paid, and what options are open to FIS members. These monthly Blogs are designed to help FIS Members avoid common traps and build on our focus on collective experience. One of the things you need to do is...
FIS Responds to Big Building Regulations Consultation
This week FIS submitted our response to the consultation on implementing the new building control regime for higher-risk buildings and wider changes to the building regulations for all buildings. The consultation was split into 12 consultation sections relate to the...
Drugs and alcohol policy
FIS members can access a template Drugs and Alcohol Policy which can be adopted by the whole supply chain to provide a consistent approach to the use of drugs and alcohol. The policy has been developed by Build UK, working with Eurofins Workplace Drug Testing. The...
Self‐declaration form issued to signatories of Prompt Payment Code
The Small Business Commissioner has issued a self‐declaration form to signatories of the Prompt Payment Code, which are required to show they pay 95% of invoices to SMEs within 30 days and 95% of other invoices in 60 days. Signatories will have until 9 November 2022...