NHMF Show Preview
21 - 22 January 2020 | Birmingham
The skills shortage – training the next generation
National Housing Maintenance Forum (NHMF) advisor Andrew Burke outlines the organisation’s mission to improve property performance and promote best practice to the next generation of asset managers as they begin their careers in social housing
economic in complying with their health and safety requirements. However, with the challenges our members are experiencing in recruiting skilled staff into the sector, we cannot ignore the increasing need to provide easily accessible training tools for new staff to ensure they have access to key resources relating to best practice, legislation and compliance. Those of us working in repairs and maintenance will be all too aware that the
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UK’s housing stock relies on a competent workforce. Many of our members have experienced first-hand the rising skills shortage caused by multiple factors
s one of the social housing sector's leading sources of good practice in the field of maintenance and asset management, the NHMF has always had a clear remit to help social landlords be efficient, effective and
including the potential impact of Brexit on our migrant workforce, a decline in the number of apprenticeships and an ageing workforce. According to the latest FMB State of Trade survey, the skills shortage is continuing to have a significant impact on the industry with 64 per cent of construction employers struggling to hire bricklayers and 59 per cent struggling to hire carpenters. Looking ahead, the skills gap is having a knock-on effect on driving up wages and materials costs with the Farmer Review predicting the construction labour force will decline by 20-25 per cent within a decade and the CITB forecasting that average construction employment is expected to grow at just 0.6 per cent per year between 2017-2021 as a result of a record low level of new entrants joining the sector to replace the 700,000 retiring workers.
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