Building up skills
We agree, and the home building industry is already addressing this issue which it has long emphasised as a key barrier to recovery.
This is best demonstrated by the “Get into Home Building” initiative it has been driving forward with The Prince’s Trust and which only last month saw a number of unemployed young people graduate from the pilot programme and immediately secure jobs or apprenticeships.
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Hide AdSuch initiatives are essential if we are to attract the young entrants and develop the skills our industry needs in order to deliver the many thousands of homes of all tenures that Scotland requires.
Philip Hogg
Homes for Scotland
Edinburgh