CSCS Cards – The Colours, The Costs and What You Need To Do To Get Your CSCS Card Sorted Out
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What Are ‘Grandfather Rights’ – Also Known As Industry Accreditation? When the Construction Skills Certification Scheme (CSCS) was first introduced, there was an obvious need to give people who had been in their trades for years a means to keep on working. This was called ‘Industry Accreditation’. Under Industry Accreditation, CSCS Cards were issued to […]
It’s at this time of the month people discover they can’t find their NVQ Certificates.
Here’s what you can do to avoid or overcome the problem of lost NVQ certificates.
You Don’t Need To Pay The Usual Fee Of £36 For An Apprentice CSCS Card Listen Here Although SuperSkills no longer trains Apprentices, we offer congratulations this morning to the Construction Skills Certification Scheme (CSCS) for removing the £36 fee for getting a CSCS Card in the case of employees starting an apprenticeship. There used […]
There are few events that are truly “unprecedented”, even though they come as a surprise to people who should have made proper arrangements to deal with them – the recent floods are a good example. However, the outbreak of Coronavirus that has so quickly become a global pandemic can be describe accurately using that term.
There is no part of the economy that will go unaffected by these events, so it is not surprising the construction sector is coming under strain.
For a business like SuperSkills, this means making sure we do everything we can to eliminate the possibility of infection to our customers and staff.
To get any National Vocational Qualification, there must be evidence of your competency in the workplace. You need to be working and for the Assessor to see you doing it – to develop your skills by giving you further training if needs be – and for you to meet the occupational standards. You can’t get the NVQ if your training is completely delivered at a training centre.
Do You Need Your CSCS Health Safety and Environment Test? We often say to people on the phone they should be careful when booking a CSCS Health Safety and Environment test. That’s because some firms have set up just to “Book” the tests. They advertise the tests on Google and when people call them, all they […]
We get asked for information about CSCS Cards regularly – and it is usually by people who have been in the trade for many years and have excellent skills, but suddenly find they cannot get on sites or work for Local Authorities because they don’t have the right CSCS Card. In addition, there are also […]
Are You Ready? SuperSkills has received notification from the CITB saying: From 1st July 2014 the green Construction Site Operative (CSO) card will no longer be issued. There will be a new green CSCS card only available for people working in labouring occupations. They go on to say: “CSCS is a scheme for the construction industry that […]