NETAmbitions will offer training and placements for disabled to work on site in London

Constructionskills is launching project to get disabled people into work on construction sites.

The NETAmbitions scheme will offer training, work placements and support to people with disabilities or long-term health conditions and include site-based work placements in London.

Tom Storey, BeOnsite operations directions director at Bovis Lendlease, said: “This project supports our policy of encouraging diversity, and we will do all we can to ensure that those on the programme receive opportunities both with ourselves and our supply chain.”

Training will include opportunities across the construction sector, including site logistics.

It is open to anyone with a disability or health condition who would like to work in the construction industry, particularly anyone who may have been injured or developed health problems in construction and would now like to retrain.

The scheme will delivered by ConstructionSkills and Newham-based careers advisory service Newco Employment and Training, with funding from the London Development Agency.

Newco Employment and Training offers training and career guidance to disabled people. Fifty per cent of the staff at its factory, NewCoProducts, which makes kitchen units, are disabled.

It is supported by the Olympic Delivery Authority, SkyBlue, City of London, Jobcentreplus, Workplace, Work Directions, Local Staff Hire and Westfield.

More than 50 people have already registered to join NETAmbitions. An official launch will be announced soon.