Management & Supervisory Development Programme
(M&SDP)
M&SDP works with the Consensus Federations to support the development and delivery of management and supervisory programmes and facilitate the uptake of training and qualifications through funding support.
We work to ensure the most effective use of our fund to deliver tangible, sustainable and measurable outputs for all sectors within our industry.
Who can apply?
All applications must be submitted through one of the Consensus Federations.
Applications from a member company of a Consensus Federation will be considered, providing it has endorsement from the Federation.
Our aim and purpose
We administer and distribute funding for projects which support business development and growth, through training individuals in business management and supervisory skills, against identified and agreed needs within construction companies and their supply chains.
Since the fund’s inception, we have been funding projects aimed at improving the quality and quantity of management and supervisory skills training across the UK construction sector. To date, more than 250 projects have received funding, either through one of the Consensus Federations, or with the endorsement of a Consensus Federation.
The scope
Each application for funding must clearly demonstrate that:
- It addresses an identified and agreed need for management and/or supervisory training and/or development, which is in line with current ConstructionSkills research into industry requirements
- There is evidence of demand
- The applicant accepts full responsibility and accountability for the delivery of the funded project and its associated financial commitments within the agreed timescale
- An identified project manager is in place to take day-to-day control of the project. The fund will support the associated project management costs as part of an application
Range of projects
We are able to support a variety of projects which meet clearly identified management and leadership needs within the construction industry. Click here for details of the sorts of projects that will be considered.
Criteria for successful projects
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Managing benefits
We seek to ensure that benefits are derived, wherever possible, from each project, to ensure that useful information/products can be shared with other specialisms and/or sectors within the construction industry, where appropriate.
We will therefore seek to own the Intellectual Property of projects, where appropriate, in order to disseminate the courses or learning to other sectors or specialists in construction. Where a case is made for you to retain the Intellectual Property Right we will ask for a licence, to enable us to disseminate learning.
Alternatively, we will ask you to complete a questionnaire and supply us with anecdotal or photographic materials to present a case study for our website to inform other Federations of our work and model the funded projects.
Application process
If you think you have an idea for a project, you can contact Mo Lancaster at
mo.lancaster@cskills.org, with brief information on your proposed project.
Our assessment process
- Once you submit your proposal, we will need to appraise it. This may take between 10-15 working days, depending on the complexity of your proposed project.
Past and current projects
Details of the projects we have sponsored in the past or are currently sponsoring are available below. We also like to collect case studies of the projects we sponsor, so that the learning and development from projects can be disseminated wherever possible.
For more information, please contact the appropriate Federation.
