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Connexions Building Futures
Wigan Council Children and Young People’s Services (CYPS) is giving a
helping hand to young people looking to secure construction jobs.
Anyone working on a building site must now hold a Construction Skills
Certificate Scheme (CSCS) card.
Now the CYPS team is providing free CSCS training at the Wigan
Connexions Centre on Standishgate and paying to put young people through
the test you must pass to gain the card.
The test covers accident reporting, manual lifting, working at height,
First Aid, using tools and all the key health and safety issues of
working on a building site.
Billy Seddon, 18, from Scholes, says: “I sat and failed the CSCS test
twice before I began training for it here at Connexions. This course has
been really good preparation and I’m now confident I will pass.”
The Connexions CSCS training has been funded through the Activity
Agreement Pilot, a government funded scheme aimed at supporting long
term unemployed young people move into further education, training or
employment together with money supplied by the Learning and Skills
Council.
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Connexions Advanced Practitioner Denise Barker says: “A lot of young
people were coming into the centre asking for help gaining the CSCS
card, so we’ve managed to find some money to cover the training and test
costs.
“Fourteen young people have done the course so far and we’ll keep
running it as long as we have funding.”
Anybody interested in finding out more about the Activity Agreement
Pilot should speak to their Connexions Personal Advisor.
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Further information
• For further information please contact Kennedy Stewart, Press Officer
at the Wigan Leisure and Culture Trust Youth Information Team, on
(01942) 486927.
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CSCS card session at the Wigan Connexions
Centre. Denise Barker (CYPS Advanced
Practitioner) gives tips to Ryan Dunleavy, 18, from Ince (left) and
Billy Seddon, 18, from Scholes
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