Addressee: Department for Education; Department for Work and Pensions · Source location: Page 11, paragraph 18, point a
To address continuing construction skills shortages, and work towards the government?s aspiration for up to 60,000 more skilled construction workers by 2029, DWP, working with DfE, should strengthen how it oversees and maximises value for money from the construction skills package by ensuring that decisions on risks, dependencies and prioritisation be considered across the portfolio.
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Addressee: Department for Education; Department for Work and Pensions · Source location: Page 11, paragraph 18, point b
To address continuing construction skills shortages, and work towards the government?s aspiration for up to 60,000 more skilled construction workers by 2029, DWP, working with DfE, should consider how it could respond to lower-than-expected performance once data become available by, for example, considering a range of different situations; this could include stopping or modifying initiatives and reallocating funding
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Addressee: Department for Education; Department for Work and Pensions · Source location: Page 11, paragraph 18, point c
To address continuing construction skills shortages, and work towards the government?s aspiration for up to 60,000 more skilled construction workers by 2029, DWP, working with DfE, should provide greater transparency around progress towards its aspiration by publishing annual updates on construction skills package initiatives indicating the funding distributed, activities undertaken and the likely impact on additional workers, making clear where information is not available.
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Addressee: Skills England · Source location: Page 12, paragraph 19, point e
To identify areas of focus, Skills England should work with relevant departments, to assess how the expected numbers, levels and skills of new construction workers joining after gaining qualifications align with the occupational skills needed both now and in the future.
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Addressee: Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade; Department for Energy Security and Net Zero; Ministry of Housing Communities and Local Government; National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority · Source location: Page 12, paragraph 19, point d
MHCLG, DESNZ, NISTA, DBT and CITB should work together to develop their underlying approach to published workforce modelling to allow consistent estimates of construction workforce needs, regularly updated, and aligned with best practice around uncertainties, highlighting limits on how models
can be used and considering various scenarios.
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