[ Focus: Wired for Success ] work
The ECA’s ground-breaking initiative – Wired for Success – aims to attract more women to electrical contracting, as Katie Silvester explains
The initiative was conceived by ECA skills ambassador
and immediate past president of the ECA, Diane Johnson. In 2010, Johnson became the first female president in the association’s 109 year history. A tireless campaigner to raise the profile of vocational trades and a passionate advocate for skills in the electrical industry, Johnson made it her goal to find a suitable pathway for women to enter the electrical contracting industry.
New qualification The ECA has teamed up with principal partner L&Q,
a London-based housing association, to secure £100,000-worth of investment. The two organisations will be working with training partner EAS Education, which has developed a two-year training programme on the back of a new Certificate – due to be launched in January 2012 -– that incorporates all the necessary knowledge and skills required to work competently and safely in the domestic environment. The training course revolves around a flexible, rounded and supportive programme of learning constructed around term time to accommodate those with children. Study comprises a mixture of classroom-based sessions
Getting the message across:
some of the candidates with ECA immediate past president and skills ambassador Diane Johnson
November 2011 ECA Today 37
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