Posted On July 13, 2017
Parliamentarians call on training overhaul to help ‘Build on Brexit’
Brexit could prove disastrous for the delivery of new homes and infrastructure unless transitional arrangements are put in place to allow the construction industry to easily draw on EU workers while it skills up a domestic workforce in greater numbers.
The warning comes from a Commission of Inquiry of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Excellence in the Built Environment in a new report Building on Brexit, published today (July 12- 4pm) at the RICS in London.
The cross-party group of parliamentarians points out the perfect storm of an ageing workforce and more people leaving the industry than entering it which is creating a skills crisis even without Brexit. There are nearly 200,000 people from the EU working in the UK which we cannot afford to lose, it says. The report sets out a 12-point plan to deal with the impact of Brexit on skills and for modernising the industry to become more competitive and productive going forward.