Nechells Wellbeing Centre is a community leisure centre in Birmingham and is home to the City of Birmingham Rockets Basketball Club. Recently the club received funding to rejuvenate its facilities, which allowed it to refurbish its training space and improve the lighting, which was becoming increasingly unfit for purpose and was also overly expensive to…
The government is under pressure to extend the green homes grant scheme beyond March 2022 after a committee of MPs described current progress as moving at a snail’s pace. Business, energy and industrial strategy minister Lord Callanan admitted only 20,000 vouchers have been handed out since its launch last summer. The slow take-up led the…
Hudson Contract is celebrating the 10th anniversary of its innovative scheme to create training opportunities for young people in seaside towns. The family-owned business, a leading supplier to the construction industry, started sponsoring apprentices in 2011 in response to the lack of options for local teenagers to develop skills and careers in the building trade….
The release of the Draft Building Safety Bill aims to encourage and assist the industry in achieving a new generation of competence, with the acquisition and ongoing assessment of building information playing an integral role in achieving these goals. Here James King, Connected Homes Director at FireAngel, explores how IoT and AI technologies are enabling…
Over a fifth of companies that regularly hire apprentices took on fewer in 2020 A quarter of tradespeople and companies plan on hiring new apprentices in 2021 Percentage of female, BAME and apprentices with learning difficulties continues to grow year on year IronmongeryDirect launch competition to win £5,000 towards funding an apprentice A third of companies and tradespeople…
Certification body, CompEx has launched a new, secure online tool to enable users to instantly check if their employees are certified for working in potentially hazardous environments. The new and improved ‘Certificate Verification’ tool allows employers to securely verify if their staff are certified in real-time. This immediate response to verify if a certificate is…
A paratrooper who was forced to quit the army due to health reasons says becoming an apprentice electrician was the best thing he could have done to turn his life around. Michael Parr, 28, of Great Glen, Leicestershire was discharged from the 3rd Battalion Parachute Regiment after suffering hearing loss in one ear as a…
Keeping up to date with the latest regulations and standards that impact the work they do, can be challenging for installers. With fire alarm system design in mind, leading fire protection and security solutions supplier, ESP, has produced a handy, pocket-size guide to highlight the key points of the latest version of the BS5389 Part…
“Apprenticeships are a hugely important part of the economy and are crucial for businesses of all sizes for long term growth,” said apprenticeship guru and director of The Apprenticeship Management Group – John Henry. This message, from the company that look after apprenticeship for the Electrical Distributors Association, comes as National Apprenticeship Week arrives (8-14…
A new migration report published on 2nd February from the CITB (Construction Industry Training Board), suggests that only one in ten construction employers understand the government‘s new migration system introduced at the beginning of 2021. A pole within the report found that 39 per cent of the 300 respondents were unaware that the rules had…