1. Home Building Skills Partnership
BACH conference March 2018

2. The challenge for Home Building
Improving outcomes when:
Home building is a fragmented industry, with 85% indirect employment in site workforce
A greater % of EU workers than construction as a whole (18%)
Industry image is not good and recruitment reach is too limited

3. The response - Home building Skills Partnership
Home Building Skills Partnership is the industry response:
Clear recognition that acting together on key requirements is the way forward
Funded by CITB with 25 companies actively involved – and making senior staff resource available
72 companies have signed the Skills Pledge – and growing
Willingness to share company learning, thinking and initiatives for the greater good
Agreement that a common agenda is needed covering Attraction and Skills for key roles

4. Governance and Active Involvement
John Tutte, Redrow plc – Chair
Andy George, Barratt Developments
Anne Billson-Ross, Taylor Wimpey
Anthony Wilkinson, Crest Nicholson
Dave Smith, St Modwen Homes
David Montague, L&Q
Jenny Herdman, HBF
Joanne Iddon, Morris Homes
John Fitzgerald, Telford Homes
John Slaughter, HBF
Neil Jefferson, NHBC
Sarah Beale, CITB
Steve Stone, Crest Nicholson plc
The Leadership Board comprises:
How to attract new entrants into the industry
Attract
How the industry trains its staff
Skills and development
The training interface with subcontractors.
Supporting supply chain development

5. To create a long term model for the partnership
Objectives
To reposition the image of the home building industry as a career choice;
To attract a larger and more diverse workforce to the home building industry;
To improve the skills of the industry workforce to raise productivity and quality;
To engage sub-contractors and suppliers in collaboration across the industry;
To create a long term model for the partnership

6. Collaboration – Home Building Skills Pledge
Train to a Standard
Engage and Support
Collaborate and Share
Champion Diversity and Inclusion
Promote
Careers
72 companies (covering at least two thirds of all new homes built) have signed up to the Home building Skills Pledge

7. Focus – Skills Shortage Roles

8. Priorities 2018
Attract new entrants to home building into skills shortage roles
Training to improve Quality and Productivity
Supporting Supply chain/Sub-Contractor companies to develop their staff
Involving more Home Builders

9. Attraction Campaign - Thinking Caps
A quick preview of our attraction campaign

10. Currently happening
Pilot - Training Needs Analysis tool for the role of Site Manager
Pilot - Site Manager contextualised training modules
Pilot - home builders claiming CITB funds to train their supply chain
Analytical work to identify the size of the skills shortage and then solutions to solve them
Industry wide pledge to work with the partnership
Pilot - bringing Military leavers into home building careers.
Developing Attraction campaign
Pilot - FE college construction students bridging course into employment as Bricklayers, Plasterers and Joiners.
Creating links from Home Builders website to the HouseBuildingCareers.org.uk website to promote the industry

11. Attracting New People to Key Roles – for every extra ten thousand houses we need approximately -
Bricklayer
2500
Plumber
300
Wall & Floor Tiler
150
Assistant/Site Manager
400
Quantity Surveyor 60
Sales Advisor
Engineer
Carpenter
1000
Groundwork/Plant Operative
Electrician
Roof Slater and Tiler
Plasterer/Dryliner
over 8000 new recruits into the twelve key roles
Key
Directly employed
Sub-contracted

12. The Bricklayer shortage story ……
Priorities and Delivery
Bricklayer Apprenticeships –in England in 2015/16 – employed across all construction
1500 apprentices completed level 2
350 apprentices completed level 3
FE college Bricklayer leavers – in England in 2015/16
3400 students completed a bricklaying course at level 2 or above.
If 25%* is applied to this cohorts it means 850 students become new entrants as bricklayers.
This gives circa 2700 new bricklayers per year into the whole of construction – Homebuilding need near this number of new recruits for every 10,000 houses built
The recent HBF workforce census detailed - 15% of Bricklayers are from overseas, and highlighted that in London half of all bricklayers are from overseas
*CITB research ‘Destinations of construction learners in FE’ suggests an average of 25% of construction students have a construction job 6 months after leaving college.

13. Key Projects happening now – get involved
Bridging course for FE construction students into employment – Bricklayer, Dry liner and Joiner
Analytical work on the size of the skills shortage in 12 key roles and the solutions
Attraction campaign targeting key job roles and key audiences
Attract: How to attract new entrants into the industry
Site Manager competency standard developed and agreed with contextualised training modules developed and being piloted
Same process for other 11 roles …..
Piloting a training needs analysis tool to define skills needs and related training
Skills and Development: How the industry trains its staff
Pilot of home builders claiming CITB funds to arrange training for their sub contract supply chain
Complete a survey to Understand employment structure of home building and how it differs from other parts of construction sector
Supporting supply chain development: The training interface with subcontractors.

14. Let us know you are interested at skillspartnership@hbf.co.uk