With a looming Brexit threatening the numbers of skilled workers entering the UK, Blane Perrotton of Naismiths writes for ‘UK Construction’ on why the existing skills shortage in the UK construction sector is set to worsen…
“The skills crisis predates Brexit, and its roots lie in a worryingly entrenched demographic shift: the number of young people coming into the industry has steadily failed to keep pace with the number of old hands retiring or leaving it.
Construction has been allowed to develop a real image problem. A generation of British teenagers raised on – and aspiring to – Love Island has come to see construction work as dirty, dangerous and poorly paid.”…