Mayor's Construction Academy Partners
Read on for information about how our partners can support you working with schools, business development tools, apprenticeships and toolkits to support equality, diversity and inclusion.
Turning Point is a deferred prosecution scheme operating in North West London whereby low-level or first time offenders (subject to a strict eligibility criteria) enter into a bespoke, police-managed contract as a means to avoid incurring a criminal record. This contract aims to address the root causes of their offending behaviour by imposing rehabilitative, reparative or restrictive conditions.
Turning Point is reliant on existing services providers and are keen to expand our partnerships across the area. If you’re able to offer employment, education or similar opportunities and would like to discuss a potential partnership, please email [email protected]
Building People is an online platform that brings together opportunities across the built environment, including resources, knowledge and support, events and vacancies. Building People are passionate about enabling employers to widen their talent pools.
Here's how you can get involved:
- keen to promote your work opportunities, events and activities to diverse audiences? Register your organisation or initiative with Building People
- do you work with diverse and under-represented groups? Join our Communities network
- interested in making Building People an industry-wide reality? Become a supporter or partner.
CITB has announced its plan to help employers recover from the impact of Coronavirus, including a substantial reduction in Levy bills. The Skills Stability Plan 2020-21 protects apprenticeships and provides direct funding to employers to adopt new ways of working needed in the wake of Covid-19.
Visit your local job brokerage service to support you with training and job opportunities. Services may include:
- improving your CV
- identifying career opportunities
- advising on jobs that best suit your skills.
Find your local authority job brokerage service.
If your organisation would like to be included in this register, please write to [email protected].
Jobcentre Plus offers support for employers to help your business overcome challenges associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. Whether you are needing to expand rapidly, or worried about redundancies, you can find advice on next steps and the best ways to support your staff.
Construction Youth Trust have developed and piloted a suite of online resources to inspire young people about careers in the construction and built environment sector.
The Contextualised Curriculum project, funded by the CITB and delivered in partnership with the London Regional Construction Training Group, provides industry professionals and teachers with a range of curriculum linked sessions that champion construction and built environment careers.
Developed in partnership with both industry and schools, the sessions blend students’ existing skills and learning with real world-of-work scenarios. The sessions contextualise students’ learning and allow them to gain an understanding of why what they learn at school is relevant to the wider working world. For students at risk of becoming disengaged with school, giving them practical demonstrations of the importance of their learning can revitalise their interest and reengage them with their education. The employer led engagements also help schools to meet the mandatory Gatsby benchmarks.
Find the entire suite of available Contextualised Curriculum sessions.
All the sessions are free and you can download and use as many as you wish. Download an overview of all sessions.
For each session there is a detailed resource pack including:
- a session plan— a step by step guide for the delivery of the session
- student worksheets—printable versions of worksheets specific to each session
- resources— including session PowerPoint, additional information sheets and activities.
There is also a handy How To Guide to help you make the most of the Contextualised Curriculum resources and support you in running engaging sessions in your local schools.
BuildUK’s work experience guide is a useful guide for employers, including SME's, that need work experience guidance. Details include when to declare work experience to your insurers, sample project plans, and more.
Interested in a career in construction and not sure what jobs in construction might be for you?
Visit GoConstruct to learn more about construction and routes into construction, including a quiz that will help you find out which roles are most suited to your interests, skills and qualifications.
The Mayor’s Good Work Standard sets a benchmark for good employment practice in pay, workplace well-being, diversity, recruitment, skills and progression. Over 60 employers are now accredited, covering 200,000 Londoners in working in sectors like retail, care, finance, and engineering.
The London Business Hub is an independent, free service connecting London’s entrepreneurs, microbusinesses and SMEs to a vast business support offer, supplemented by a network of business support.
LPC
Introducing the London Progression Collaboration. The Institute for Public Policy Research, in partnership with the Mayor of London, has established a new team dedicated to supporting employers to set up good quality apprenticeships. The team provides free support to employers of all sizes, helping with apprenticeship strategy and levy transfer brokerage, and establishing a knowledge transfer network.
Reskilling the Recovery
Leading construction businesses came forward in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, pledging their unspent apprenticeship levy funding to support training in small construction firms. The London Progression Collaboration (LPC) received support from major construction businesses including Foster + Partners, National Grid, MACE Group, The Clancy Group, Wilmott Dixon and Osborne.
Through the new initiative smaller construction firms can apply to the LPC for apprenticeship levy funding, helping them to save money and access training where government funding is not available.
In total, the LPC’s Reskilling the Recovery campaign has raised £3.5million of apprenticeship levy funding. The LPC continues to welcome further donations and is currently receiving a high volume of applications for funding from small construction firms.
Visit the LPC’s website for further details and find out how to get in touch.
You can get in touch with LPC’s construction sector lead, Oscar Watkins or find out more information on LPC.
Led by CECA and delivered by the Supply Chain School, the CITB funded programme has developed a toolkit for Fairness Inclusion and Respect (FIR) in the construction industry. This range of free resources, including workshops, e-learning tools and toolbox talks is available to anyone for use at any time, free of charge.
The LEAN connects businesses and senior business volunteers with schools and colleges to help young people build the skills and experiences they need to lead successful futures. Supporting the Construction industry to engage with young people is a priority for the Network. Please email Daniel Chow to discuss how the LEAN can support you.
The STEM Ambassador programme has joined forces with CITB and Build UK to showcase the amazing career opportunities in construction and inspire young people to work in the industry.
The BPIC Network (Black Professionals in Construction) is a platform for black and ethnic minority professionals within the construction industry here in the UK and across the world. Their aim is to connect underrepresented groups within the industry and work directly with key organisations in order to champion the importance of diversity in the built environment.
As part of this, BPIC has created a minority owned construction supply chain portal, providing a centralised hub as well as helping industry connect with projects and developments. Contact BPIC to find out more about how you can get involved.
The COVID-19 Housing Delivery Taskforce, chaired and convened by Deputy Mayor for Housing and Residential Development Tom Copley, is made up of leaders from across London’s housing delivery sector including councils, construction, unions, and housing associations.