Carenza di competenze a rischio per la costruzione di 1,5 milioni di case, Warns Report

Skills shortage? Maybe force companies to actually train people then? My son has just finished three years at college completing level 1 & 2 carpentry, then also a level 1 multi skills (plastering, brick laying & carpentry) while trying to find an apprenticeship.

There are over 50 listings for carpenters within a reasonable traveling distance from home. They all want full qualifications, 5 years experience and CSCS. My son even wrote a fantastic covering letter and along with a copy of his CV and portfolio, sent it out via email, post and even in person to every single carpentry company in the area. Nothing heard back at all, nothing.

During discussions with the college, there are simply not the placements available in order for progression onto a level 3 which needs to be an apprenticeship. He’s doing the next 12 months carpentry unpaid on a council internship just to try and get some experience behind him in order to get his foot in the door with an apprenticeship the following year.

He may have spent three years of his life qualifying for a job which may be totally out of reach, ending up as a site labourer is increasingly looking like his job. A career path he has been set on since he was 15 after being told about a local shortage of carpenters. We are failing our young.

skills shortage or vacancy shortage? or Both? Be reasonable here.

I guarantee given the current jobs market there is a queue to get on and involved in this. Remind yourself how many people of working age are not in education or training (not excluding the ones currently studying or where its been excluded by the ONS for whatever the reason)? I understand not everyone can do the phsyical labour but there are other parts of building a home that dont involve this and can be done by others with the right skillset.

Tradespeople earn more than our elected officials. How are you going to get people to apply and involved in the training if no opportunities exist??

This once again proves to me that the housing market is rigged. They (you know who) want a treacle of homes built not a flood as it would lead to collapse of the housing market that is so far propping up our failed economy.

The UK establishment is like a drug addict in denial when it comes to immigration, it’s always “I only need one more hit”. 

I heard in a recent video that developers have planning permission for 4million homes but they won’t build them to keep pricings inflating.

I dislike the whole tone of the debate around this, which seems to be “if we have a shortage of tradespeople then we should just slump down and do nothing”.

First do a massive planning reform so it’s really easy to build and the private sector spikes.

Second do a big public house building program (and end the ludicrous right to buy).

Third if you don’t have enough people then start proper training programs for them to learn and upskill now that there is plenty of sustained work for them.

Fourth invest in technology, flatpack housing components which are factory made and only assembled onsite which need less skill to build. 3D printing houses, concrete poured houses etc.

Fifth if there’s not enough infrastructure like roads, rail, power lines etc then get on and build that too.

This country has become so defeatist and helpless. We just need to do things and try again.

The Victorians would literally be hanging their heads in shame at what we have become.

I must admit I didn’t had that one on my Bingo “Gov Excuse” Card … damn they are creative..

We need to not solely rely on the apprenticeship route. Set up a national building/ engineering company that has training at its heart, lean into training for all ages, with a route for self employed to have an easy well paid time training in the autumn of their careers.
And the option to keep training and to specialize so we have a bank of knowledge and skill for large scale projects like tunnels and bridges etc.

I work in trade and the obsession that those who have no clue have with apprenticeships is weird.

Great news for me. Starting a new contract soon and they’re desperate for labour they can’t find. As a result I’m estimating 400-500 a day.

There was a skills shortage because training up young people was discouraged when we had so much immigration. Todays mid 30 year olds are those who couldn’t get a start on a building site 15-20 years ago because they were using cheap EU labour. I am one of these people, that’s my lived experience, being young and eager and every job/training opportunity slammed shut in my face.

Bullshit.

Well designed prefabs with actual quality control checks during installation would be the way forward.

I’ve a friend who was a regional exec of David Wilson homes who said a good few years ago, there was a limit of around 300k houses that could be built in the UK due to supply constraints as building materials, bricks, timber frames were working at capacity along with the manpower to do the work

Serious question: I’m in my early 30s and work in IT. I’d much prefer to retrain and help build houses for future generations, but how do I retrain without also going bankrupt in the process?

The solution is simple.

Offer better salaries and more people will be willing to learn.

And to make sure that the prices do not go up and things actually get built.

Have the government create several construction companies.

Each company is to operate on market principles.

Have them build what ever gives the highest profit, and sell and rent out and the highest possible price they can get.

Have all the profits go to a fund and the fund can only be used to build more and for maintenance, and nothing else.

Keep on building until profits hit +-0.

Multiple companies are needed so that the government can see which board of directors is doing poorly and remove all of them, because the companies will be building similar things and if one company is doing much worse than another, then it is the boards fault.

This program is not to be used for any type of dumping ground for people who are not good enough for any type of job. It is a job like any other and if they do not perform well, then they are to be fired just like any other job.

Start small scale and gradually expand as money and experience is gained.

The picture also highlights the problem: an outdated and slow construction process for a 100-year-old style property. Almost no one builds like this in Europe anymore.