Government announce funding to support training for thousands to take advantage of green job opportunities
Thousands of new training courses will be rolled out across England with the ambition to grow a skilled workforce of heat pump and energy efficiency installers, as the government announces the winners of the Home Decarbonisation Skills Training competition.
The £9.2 million funding will offer free and heavily subsidised training opportunities for installers of clean heating and energy efficiency measures. It will see training providers deliver 8,900 courses at accredited centres across England for prospective heat pump and energy efficiency installers.
Business and Energy Minister Lord Callanan said:
“The green energy sector is driving growth and creating jobs right across the country, and this funding will make sure we have enough tradespeople trained up and able to take advantage of these opportunities.
We are making homes greener and cheaper to keep warm and training thousands more skilled installers will ensure we keep accelerating the pace of creating cleaner and more energy efficient buildings.”
Improving the energy efficiency of homes is viewed as the best long-term method of cutting household energy use and bringing down bills and this funding will be crucial in helping ensure there are enough trained installers to deliver upgrades across the country.
The funding will provide training for people already working in the heating and plumbing sector who are looking to retrain or grow their existing skills, as well as for those looking to enter and work in the energy efficiency, building retrofit and low carbon heating sectors, building both the overall number and skill levels of trained installers across England.
Training through the latest round of the Home Decarbonisation Skills Training competition will be delivered until 31 March 2023.
The organisations that have been successful in this latest funding round will provide appropriate installer training that leads to a recognised NVQ qualification or equivalent and Continuing Professional Development-style short courses.
Training opportunities will be provided across England with courses being run at centres in towns and cities from Truro to Newcastle and the Isle of Wight to Cumbria.
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