Construction Industry Training Board
Introduction
The mission statement of the Construction Industry Training Board is:
'To promote and facilitate the training of sufficient people in the skills needed for a world class construction industry.'
CITB was established on 21 July 1964 under powers conferred by the Industrial Training Act 1964. The purpose of CITB is to make better provision for the training of persons over compulsory school age for employment in the construction industry.
The Board comprises a Chairman, a Deputy Chairman, twelve employer members, two employee members and two education members. In addition, three assessors are appointed from the Department for Education and Employment, the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions, and the Scottish Office Education and Industry Department.
| | Number of Staff | | | Expenditure (£m) |
| 1994/95 | 969 | | 1994/95 | 99.3 |
| 1995 | 971 | | 1995 | 88.6* |
| 1996 | 920 | | 1996 | 95.7 |
| 1997 | 932 | | 1997 | 103.5 |
| *Nine months to 31 December 1995, including exceptional costs (expenditure excluding exceptional costs was £69.2m). |
Copies of the Annual Report and Accounts can be obtained from the above address.
Achievements in 1996/97
- Piloting of on-site training and developing a cost effective best practice model for assessment of NVQ competency.
- Pre-vocational education extended the network of Curriculum Centres and Partnerships throughout the UK. Marked progress in the active participation of 250,000 young people and employers in the initiative.
- Restructuring of Head Office and streamlining of Field locations (from 30 offices to 11) to reduce cost and improve customer service by utilising new technologies.
- Records Schemes moved to a new location, re-structured staff and implemented new software which resulted in improved customer service and increased security.
- Two regional offices were accredited as Investors in People.
Plans for 1997/98
- customer care programme to cover all CITB activities
- continue to research industry's wide patterns of training, skill requirements and establishing career paths
- facilitating the movement of all employees to actively engage in Lifetime Learning
- re-accreditation of those existing main trades NVQs and SVQs which expire in April 1997
- improve the quality of New Entrant Trainees by linking recruitment to the acquisition of GNVQs and Pre-vocational involvement with the Industry
- development of strategic partnerships with TECs/LECs
- continue to develop a customer focused commercial culture within the organisation
- research and develop a means to raise the standards of training provided by the Industry by approving and by franchising of CITB courses
- focus on the needs of the Specialists to meet their training needs
- marketing of the new on-site training methodology to Industry and Assessment Centres to establish the means to certificate the existing workforce
- continue to extend the accreditation of IS9002 and IiP through the CITB and encourage the take-up of IiP by Industry
Key Performance Targets
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| 1994/95
| 1995/96
| 1996/97
| 1997/98
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Key Measure
|
Set
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Achieved
|
Set
|
Achieved
|
Set
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Achieved
|
Set
|
Trainee Weeks (000's)
|
20.8
|
18.3
|
21
|
18.7
|
26
|
27.4
|
26.7
|
Levy Support for NET (£m)
|
23.6
|
18.5
|
17.9
|
14.7
|
19.7
|
24.7
|
31.7
|
Levy Income (£m)
|
44.0
|
60.7
|
50.0
|
0.6*
|
54.3
|
56.6
|
55.4
|
GNVQs Recruited to NET programme
|
(Targets first set in 1997/98)
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
416
|
1,500
|
TEC Partnerships
|
(Targets first set in 1997/98)
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
9
|
Curriculum Centres (cumulative)
|
60
|
74
|
80
|
84
|
122
|
122
|
Network
complete
|
NVQ Registrations (000's)
|
n/a
|
30.3
|
18
|
14.9
|
24.7
|
32.7
|
24
|
Company Visit
|
(Targets first set in 1997/98)
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
12,600
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* because of change of accounting period
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