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The government’s Construction Talent Retention Scheme is key to keeping much-needed talent within the sector, explains Caroline Gumble
For a few years now the CIOB has been raising awareness of an impending skills shortage in our industry. We’ve raised it with parliamentarians, we’ve supported industry initiatives to attract new talent, we’ve even tried to introduce the benefits of a career in the built environment to children via our Minecraft game.
One of the consequences of the pandemic is that, with project slow-downs and cancellations and many companies being forced to make cuts, we face the prospect of losing skills, experience and expertise we already have in our industry at a time when we can least afford it.
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