The government should use an apprenticeship scheme developed by Able Skills, a construction training company, to provide partly trained workers for the building industry, Frank Field, the chairman of the works and pensions committee, is urging.
Field is proposing a 10-week training programme that would provide basic bricklaying, carpentry and plumbing skills, enabling the trainees to join the workforce as semi-skilled workers.
The aim, he says, is to enable homes to be built without having to bring in skilled workers from abroad, and also to offer skills and jobs to young people.
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