CSCS Card Changes: Improving learner journeys from education to employment

Join CSCS for a briefing on upcoming changes to their Labourer and Trainee cards, which are designed to alleviate the construction sector’s skill shortage and ensure new entrants in skilled occupations begin their careers on recognised training pathways.

With over 50,000 extra workers required per year to maintain output, construction has a well-documented skills shortage. The issue is further compounded by confusing routes of entry into the sector that drive young talent away from the industry or reduce their CSCS carding options to the green Labourer card, a card that provides limited scope for further training and career development.

To help tackle these issues, CSCS is to reduce the length of the initial Labourer cards to two years and make the Trainee card available to those who have attained a Level 2 (or above) non-occupational competence qualification.

Those who remain Labourers can renew their card for five years by providing evidence that they are working in a labouring role while the initial Trainee card will be valid for two years but can be renewed for a further three years if the card holder provides evidence they are registered onto an N/SVQ or an agreed alternative.

Delivering the briefing will be Garry Mortimer, Executive Director of Operations at CSCS Cards Ltd and Alan O’Neile, Director of Communications and Marketing, CSCS Ltd.

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