CSCS get overhaul as it is dogged with complaints
If you have phoned the CSCS for a new card this January you will know that they aren’t issuing new cards as they are swapping over to a new system…
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CSCS to shut skills card loophole
The CSCS skills card scheme is ending an exemption to the CITB health, safety and environment test following the consultation with its partners including the CITB. Normally most applicants are…
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Father and sons jailed after illegal workers CSCS fraud
The men were found to have conspired to supply over CSCS cards to 180 illegal construction workers and other documents, so they could work on construction sites throughout the UK…
Read MoreWoman director caught using multiple fake CSCS cards on construction site
Nationaltradesmen.co.uk has reported on a number of stories involving fake CSCS cards and now the CITB have employed a former Superintendent, Ian Sidney, to find and investigate the rising fraud involving…
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CPCS cheat sheets offered online for £10
The Construction Plant Competence Scheme or CPCS has had a rough time of it lately and now it has even bigger worries, with cheat sheets being sold online…
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Redrow and Barratt homes to use electronic CSCS checks
Barratt and Redrow homes have committed to checking all CSCS cards with a new web based technology to confirm the user of the card and the card itself are genuine…
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4615 CSCS cards revoked in CITB clampdown
Thousands of CSCS cards are being revoked because of the test centers they were taken at, the susspect five test centers have since had there licences revoked. CITB has confirmed…
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71% of construction deaths in London were migrants in 2015
UCATT reveals that 71% of construction deaths are migrant workers and has urged the HSE to do something about the deaths and has called for reform is in the CSCS health…
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6,000 workers informed they must retake CSCS test
The CITB has confirmed that six thousand workers will need to retake the test as part of its ongoing campaign to crackdown on skills card cheats after cheating was…
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CITB to regularly audit CSCS centers to tackle card fraud
Last week’s Newsnight put the issue of card fraud in the construction industry under the spotlight. As an ex-police superintendent who now heads up the CITB’s fraud investigation team, I…
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