Sector hampered by lack of job continuity

摘要

ConstructionSkills has worked with the tunnelling sector for the past few years to see how we can support them with training and qualifying their workforce. This is essential because a key issue for tunnelling is a lack of a single trade body to support and represent them. The sector requires very specialist skills that are not continually in demand. Consequently when one major project finishes, tunnellers can find they are not able to walk straight into a new job. This has made creating a formal NVQ qualification difficult, a problem compounded by the lack of one voice representing the sector's needs.