A group of MPs is set to investigate how to recruit and retain more women in construction in a bid to help meet the industry’s skills needs after Brexit.
The All Party Parliamentary Group for Excellence in the Built Environment (APPGEBE) is calling on business and individuals to submit “clear” evidence on how the recruitment and retention of more women in construction can be achieved. In parallel, they will look at how this could help the industry replace migrant skills, which could be lost after Brexit.
It said it wanted to hear ideas not just about what government could do, but what the industry could do itself to increase the talent pool.
This is the seventh inquiry led by the APPGEBE and follows its fifth inquiry, published in July 2017, looking at how leaving the EU must drive modernisation and training in the built environment.
The cross-party Commission will be chaired by Eddie Hughes MP and other members will include Helen Hayes MP, the Earl of Lytton, Lord Best, Robert Courts MP and Lord Stunell.
The Commission of Inquiry will examine written submissions and will set up two roundtable sessions, at which oral evidence will be presented to the Commission directly.
The deadline for submissions, which should be no longer than six sides of A4, should be sent electronically to the APPGEBE secretary Graham Watts OBE at [email protected].
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Great plan can the plan please include Scottish women
Unconscious bias is rampant in the construction industry middle aged white males employ other middle aged white males or females just like them.
Leading to dull one dimensional people running the industry and ensuring through their recruitment processes the status quo remains.
This costs the industry is huge in terms of attracting and recruiting a diverse workforce for the future.
I have worked in the industry for four years and experienced this first hand. I have seen bright young people full of energy and enthusiasm being put down humiliated by people who do not have the ability to manage people and are unconsciously incompetent . Social skills are not valued and until this changes and mentoring and coaching skills are seen as important , the industry will keep losing good people.
It’s a shame.
Why not look at why there are so few women in garbage collection, and so few men in teaching while they are at it?
Dorothy, I’m one of the middle aged, middle class white men you clearly have such a problem with, but while my social skills are not great, I would like to think I’m not a straight line, or indeed ‘unconsciously incompetent’
Thanks.
Think please before you let loose and start with the labels, your ‘4 years in the industry’ are actually very little, when for most professions that barely gets you out of college (and in Architecture would see you barely half way to a Part 3).