What training is supported by these grants?
Short Duration off-the-job training grants are much more restrictive than grants available under the Training and Development Plan (supported by grants B101/B102) and are limited to payments for construction-related occupations only; for a much narrower range of course topics; and without the advantage of aggregating odd hours into days, for payment purposes.
Attendance on construction-related courses that reinforce, complement or update initial training. Courses may be run by ConstructionSkills, public education establishments, employers or other training providers, and maybe held externally or in-house. The grant references B201 and B202 denote the course duration and type of subject area:
	- B201 supports courses lasting for a minimum of six hours training per day and that are directly related to the construction industry - B202 supports courses that last for less than one day (half-day courses) that contain at least three hours of training in exclusively health, safety and/or environment subjects
The training must be in accordance with the Principles of Sound Training which apply to all employers.
What training is supported by Grant B201?
Supervisory and management courses for technical and site management occupations. The types of course disciplines and occupations will include the following:
	- Course disciplines: appraisal/interviewing, partnering/construction relationships, motivation, leadership, delegation, mentoring and coaching, management of construction teams, meeting skills - Occupations: first line supervisor (including charge hand/foreman/woman), site manager, general foreman/woman, project manager, section engineer, sub-agent/site agent, contracts manager
Sales and marketing courses for sales staff employed by house builders or kitchen and bathroom fitters to sell new houses or kitchens and bathrooms respectively. In-house courses lasting for at least one day on quality assurance required to enable the firm to achieve BS EN ISO 9001:2000. Environmental sustainability in construction. 5 day New Roads and Street Works Act (NRSWA) training courses which are predominantly assessment based will be paid at a rate of 3.5 days per delegate. Where the course is a different duration, the assessment element will not be grant aided and grant eligibility will be calculated on an individual basis. Training under the Construction Industry Scaffolders Record Scheme (CISRS) run by accredited training providers.
	ConstructionSkills/NASC -approved off-the-job training courses by the basic or advanced route.
What training is supported by Grant B202?
It is a general condition of grant that safety must be an integral part of all training. This means that a course of less than one day entitled “Safe use of…” is not grant-aided. A course of less than one day for the “Safe Use of Dumpers” is considered to be a Dumper operator course – not a safety course; and a half-day “Scaffolding Safety Course” which trains people to erect any kind of scaffolding is a scaffolding course and not a safety course, for grant B202 purposes. The only exception to this rule is for half-day Abrasive wheels courses that are allowed grant support as a special concession.
What training is NOT supported by these grants?
- All training that is supported by a grant prefixed with an A in the Grants Scheme. This includes attendance on NEBOSH (link to definitions) courses which is supported by grant A09. - Apprentice training which is supported by grants A02, A03, A05 or Craft Grant Non Apprenticeship training, which is supported by grant A08. - Training for apprentices/trainees who are ineligible for grant aid through A02, A03 and A05 due to the training provider, employer or apprentice, not meeting the grant criteria. - Instructor training except for CPCS Instructor training as this is supported by grant A41. - Training that is being claimed through the Training Plan route as this training is supported by grants B101, B102. - Time spent on non-training activities, such as course registration, induction, domestic arrangements, all break times, external assessments and examinations. - Training that is company specific. - Training where the main content relates to the procedures and organisation of a particular firm, (except for courses lasting for at least one day on quality assurance required to enable the firm to achieve BS EN ISO 9001:2000). - Company, site and customer induction courses. - Courses of less than one day (with the exception of health, safety and/or environment courses - grant B202 supports this training). Course hours cannot be aggregated. - CIOB modules attended on a day-release, or half-day-and-evening basis as grant A27 supports this training. - Evening courses defined as courses programmed to start at 4 p.m. or later as grant B102 supports this training. - Conferences and seminars. - Distance learning. - Courses designed for, or attended by, more than 30 people (irrespective of whether grant is not claimed for the excess numbers). - Off-the-job courses in the rest of Europe and overseas (unless the course is not available, or could not be held, in Great Britain). - Language courses. - Heavy goods vehicle driver’s licence courses. - VAT courses. - Tachograph courses. - Courses delivered by public educational establishments.