The CITB has seen a huge amount of upheaval over the past five years. It has slimmed down, jobs have gone and the strategy has changed.

Under its Vision 2020 plan the organisation has striven to move away from a lot of direct training and instead focus on supporting construction employers with their key skills, training and apprenticeships needs. While plans for the CITB to divest its National Construction Colleges (NCC) at Bircham Newton, Norfolk and Inchinnan, and Glasgow were modified when the organisation announced they would be retained last year, other parts of the Vision 2020 plan have been implemented.

This programme of change has seen the CITB give a stronger role for employers in its governance, introduce new employer funds and automated grant services and sell the NCC Midlands training facility to Walsall College. CITB’s administrative functions were outsourced, various card schemes were transferred to new owners or service providers, and the number of offices were reduced to one, centrally located head office in Peterborough.

And one person has led the organisation throughout that time – the chief executive, Sarah Beale – and now she is leaving.

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