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• Exchange best practice.
• Identify appropriate and consistent support for the sectors employers in the delivery of all types of training and qualifications that will ensure successful outcomes.
• Discuss activities to preserve the quality of delivery.
• Support the activities of the Training Group (FISTG).
• Make recommendations to the FIS Skills Board for the furtherment of training and qualifications within the sector.
• Determine guidance on employer support to ensure successful delivery.
• Identify and support innovation and promote best practice in training and qualification delivery.
• Comment on and contribute to the content of qualifications and standards for the sector.
• Highlight areas of concern relating to training and qualifications.

This online event is open to all.

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FIS knows how difficult some employer members are finding the current process for recruiting, employing and/or hiring apprentices and securing the funding to which your organisations are eligible. This webinar will explain the support available and highlight some of the quirks of the funding system as well as providing an explanation that should ensure total success. Although designed for micro, small and medium sized organisations this webinar will be useful for everyone and anyone involved in or considering taking on an apprentice. Ajay Purbhoosing is a Senior Account Manager with London Progression Collaboration and has many years experience in education and training. The organisation has secured over £8.2m of levy transfer pledges to support small business in order to rebuild and reskill their workforces.

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Join this online webinar, hosted by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strateggy, to find out more about safety at work in offices and similar indoor environments during the coronavirus pandemic

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Legal experts Emma Milham and David Rintoul of Hill Dickinson LLP take a look at managing some of the legal challenges associated with restarting construction.

1. Summary of possible issues being experienced e.g. staff shortages, lack of availability of materials, delays to orders, increased costs associated with compliance with social distancing measures
2. Measures to consider in respect of existing contracts (including variations, fluctuations and productivity)
3. Measures to consider in respect of future contracts

Plenty of time will be allowed for questions at the end of their presentations.

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We will look at the scale of the problem and a round-up of local opportunities providing ideas to support recruitment that cover all key pathways into construction (trade and construction management). There will be advice on how to approach schools, colleges and local networks and where to advertise roles (trade and construction management/surveying).

For discussion

Recruitment: What’s available, what support is there for employers
Retaining trainees: Managing young people, training to retain, the purpose of induction and options for delivering training
Meeting Section 106 responsibilities: Additionality of training. Programmes that you can tap into including BounceBack and flexi-job apprentices
Competence: Qualifications, changing regulatory landscape, ongoing training professional passports, training facilities in your region
Funding: Funding available to support you

Time will be allowed for open discussion and networking.

The FIS team will be supported by representatives of CITB and local speakers aiming to give members fresh ideas, a clear plan of action and understanding of the support available to attack their skills gap. This will include ideas and resources to support approaches to local schools, how to work more effectively with the Department for Work and Pensions, case studies and a list of initiatives and funding that can support your recruitment efforts and induction and development of workers. Details of the support available from CITB for recruiting and qualifying people will also be given.

Similar intervention events are being run across the UK in March, April and May in London, Bristol, Dartford, Manchester and Glasgow – click here to find your local event

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Agenda

14:30 Registration and refreshments

15:00 Welcome, FIS Regional Chair, Angela Mansell

15:05 Building Safety Act: John Miles of Assent Building Control

15:30 Saving Construction, Payments and Resilience: Tim Whitehill, Saible, Co-founder, Chief Strategy Officer and Visiting Research Fellow at Liverpool Business School

16:00 Break

16:10  FIS contract review service: Iain McIlwee and Damian James

16:30 Careers in construction: Daniel McDonagh, Class of your own

17:00 Panel debate

17:30 Close and networking

Tim Whitehill, Saible, Co-founder, Chief Strategy Officer and Visiting Research Fellow at Liverpool Business School

Tim is founding investor of Saible, a revolutionary fintech product that changes the way to pay and get paid for construction and development projects. Tim joined Saible in September 2023 in the role of Chief Strategy Officer and has a 27-yearlong portfolio career devoted to the construction sector which includes consulting, investment, academia, and industry volunteering. Just ahead of the Carillion collapse, Tim co-authored the 2018 research report ‘The Organisational Resilience of the Construction Industry’ which exposed the deepening problem of insolvency in the sector. He is Director of The Save Construction Initiative and is Visiting Research Fellow at Liverpool Business School where he continues his pursuit of improving the resilience of UK construction sector firms.

John Miles, Business Development Manager at Assent Building Control

John has over 20 years of construction industry experience. He graduated Sheffield Hallam University in 2002 with a degree in Building Surveying. Since graduation he has worked in building control for both the public and private sector.

He is passionate about the sector and believes that the future of building control will depend on intelligent sector-wide solutions that safeguard the investments of both individuals and companies, defend our vulnerable communities and drive out the sub-standard construction practices which have plagued the industry.

Recently, John has been appointed as a member of the RICS Building Control Sector Advisory Forum and is a regular contributor to the RICS Built Environment Journal.

Daniel McDonagh BSc PGCE MEd, Teaching Development Manager at Class Of Your Own

Daniel is a qualified teacher based in Manchester, who was awarded the Institution of Civil Engineers “ICE 200 medal” for his outstanding contribution to Civil Engineering. In 2018, he was appointed as a Specialist Leader of Education (SLE) and holds a Master’s in Education from University of Manchester.

Daniel has 15 years of teaching experience in the UK and has developed, taught, and led ‘Design Engineer Construct’ at Levels 1, 2 and 3 in an 11-18 school. His eight-year experience teaching DEC enabled him to move to COYO in 2019 as the Teaching Development Manager. Daniel’s current role is to support and develop COYO’s family of new and existing ‘DEC’ teachers and their learners. He is passionate about empowering and developing young people, to take responsibility for their own futures through employment-focused learning.

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