The Construction Skills Certification Scheme (CSCS) will stop issuing Construction Related Occupation (CRO) skills cards from the end of March.
The CSCS is phasing out the cards with all those issued since October 2015 due to expire by the end of September 2017.
Around 230,000 CRO cards are currently in circulation and cover a range of ancillary construction roles but, crucially, you don’t need industry-related qualifications to hold one.
Alan O’Neile, head of communications at CSCS, said: “The Construction Leadership Council announced that skills certification card schemes carrying the CSCS logo must only certify those occupations with nationally recognised construction-related qualifications, ie NVQs or approved equivalents.
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