{"id":103524,"date":"2022-01-12T11:35:19","date_gmt":"2022-01-12T11:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=103524"},"modified":"2022-01-12T17:08:05","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T17:08:05","slug":"building-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/hr-skills-news\/building-lives\/103524\/","title":{"rendered":"Willmott Dixon will scale up national upskilling programme with Building Lives Academies"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.willmottdixon.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Willmott Dixon<\/a> is collaborating with two more London boroughs and three colleges to open Building Lives Academies to train up hundreds of people annually so that they can find work in construction<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_103528\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-103528\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-103528\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Frank-Towell-Court-Building-Lives-Academy-2-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"building lives \" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Frank-Towell-Court-Building-Lives-Academy-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Frank-Towell-Court-Building-Lives-Academy-2-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Frank-Towell-Court-Building-Lives-Academy-2-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Frank-Towell-Court-Building-Lives-Academy-2-696x463.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Frank-Towell-Court-Building-Lives-Academy-2-1068x711.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Frank-Towell-Court-Building-Lives-Academy-2-631x420.jpg 631w, https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Frank-Towell-Court-Building-Lives-Academy-2-1920x1278.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Frank-Towell-Court-Building-Lives-Academy-2.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-103528\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Frank Towell Court Building Lives Academy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/willmott-dixon-begins-work-on-10-7m-semh-school\/103173\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Willmott Dixon<\/a> has partnered with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/kensington-housing-scheme\/94587\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kensington &amp; Chelsea Council<\/a> to open its latest <a href=\"https:\/\/buildingpathways.org.uk\/building-lives-academy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Building Lives Academy<\/a> (BLA) on 17 January. This academy will provide training and work experience over 11 weeks to 16-24-year-old residents in the area. Ultimately, the company\u2019s aim is to build 57 new homes at Kensal Road and Hewer Street.<\/p>\n<p>Another BLA has been organised in the London Borough of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/hounslow-housing-scheme\/93446\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hounslow<\/a> to help create Frank Tower Court, a housing complex that will see 102 new homes go up. A three-week programme will provide qualifications such as Health and Safety and Traffic Marshall certificates, a CSCS card and real-life work experience to help the local community find jobs in the industry.<\/p>\n<p>In South Croydon, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esc.ac.uk\/about-esc\/about-us\/Orbital-south-colleges\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Orbital College Group<\/a> will work with Willmott Dixon to set up construction sector-based youth academies in the John Ruskin College and East Surrey College campuses. By providing young people with employability skills such as CV writing, job hunting and interview practice the academies hope to help get them into construction jobs. A similar initiative is taking place at <a href=\"https:\/\/stcg.ac.uk\/merton-college\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Merton College Campus<\/a>, part of South Thames College Group.<\/p>\n<p>In the South West at Weston-super-Mare, the company has partnered with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weston.ac.uk\/news\/new-constructing-lives-together\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CITB and Weston College<\/a> to offer the the Constructing Lives Together programme. A two-week training course will allow candidates to earn a CSCS card and a Health and Safety in a Construction Environment Level 1 certification \u2013 considered a gateway into construction.<\/p>\n<h3>&#8216;It\u2019s also part of our ethos to drive social mobility&#8217;<\/h3>\n<p>Sarah Fraser, head of the Willmott Dixon Foundation, said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs we emerge from the Covid pandemic, upskilling in our local communities will be more important than ever. Supporting people to find long-term jobs will help give the construction industry the capacity to build the much-needed infrastructure that will generate wider growth in our economy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s also part of our ethos to drive social mobility and leave a skills legacy in the communities where we work, and we are delighted with the huge interest our academies have generated among young people. Our \u2018Now or Never\u2019 2030 sustainability strategy includes our Building Lives commitment to help more than 1,000 people facing significant barriers to work gain access to new career opportunities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cllr Kim Taylor-Smith, deputy leader and lead member for Grenfell, Housing and Social Investment, added:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBuilding high-quality homes requires high-quality professionals and it\u2019s a real boost that the Building Lives Academy will give our young people the chance to be at the forefront of construction in their own borough.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Academy will provide an excellent, practical introduction to the industry and perhaps in time its graduates will play a role in our plans to build 600 new Council-owned homes in the borough.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Other Building Lives Academies<\/h3>\n<p>There are multiple Building Lives Academies across the country, including a Drylining Academy in HMP Elmley, opened by Willmott Dixon. They resulted in nearly half of 2019 and 2020 attendees (44%) finding work within three months.\u00a0 Previously, all of those attendees were unemployed.<\/p>\n<p>In accordance with Covid guidelines, in 2020 Willmott Dixon adapted its Building Lives programmes so they could be delivered digitally and in-person, enabling people to gain vital skills, opening doors to long-term employment.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Willmott Dixon is collaborating with two more London boroughs and three colleges to open Building Lives Academies to train up hundreds of people annually so that they can find work in construction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[285],"tags":[676,908,882,661,592,596,1009],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-103524","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-hr-skills-news","7":"tag-construction","8":"tag-economy","9":"tag-employment","10":"tag-hr","11":"tag-skills","12":"tag-training","13":"tag-willmott-dixon"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Willmott Dixon will scale up national upskilling programme with Building Lives Academies<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Willmott Dixon is collaborating with two London boroughs and three colleges to open Building Lives Academies so that the local community can find work\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/hr-skills-news\/building-lives\/103524\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Willmott Dixon will scale up national upskilling programme with Building Lives Academies\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Willmott Dixon is collaborating with two London boroughs and three colleges to open Building Lives Academies so that the local community can find work\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/hr-skills-news\/building-lives\/103524\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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