IOC President Geoff Rhodes and NAS Skills Lead Amanda Scott attended the TCE General Assembly, held in Brand, Austria from 12-14 June. Attendees travelled from Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Italy to be at the event.
They delivered a joint presentation on behalf of the UK, highlighting current work, progress and initiatives being taken in tackling the skills shortages in woodworking skills and the important wide-ranging work of the IOC and NAS, as well as the NOS Competency Framework Development, alongside the Government’s Timber in Construction Roadmap.
Topics covered at the event included developments linked to future Youth & Student exchange possibilities based on recent UK-EU negotiated agreements, new UK forestry planting policies and our own Mentoring Champions and the new WoodWorks Scheme to support FE Colleges and students entering employment in our sector.
Our international cooperative connections were reaffirmed, enhanced and developed further
