Constructionline links with CSCS to prove commitment

Constructionline has formed a joint initiative with the Construction Skills Certification Scheme (CSCS) and a separate initiative with the Commission for Racial Equality (CRE).

CSCS will be issuing new 'Certificates of Commitment' for those firms that indicate the percentage of their workforce that are fully-qualified CSCS cardholders.

Constructionline will display this information to enable clients to identify firms that are employing a CSCS-registered and qualified workforce.

The initiative is intended to boost awareness of the CSCS scheme among public sector bodies and encourage companies bidding for public sector work to require their workforce to hold CSCS cards. Procuring clients will also be encouraged to use Constructionline as it will be the only source of a firm's commitment to CSCS available online.

In a separate move, Const-ructionline, in collaboration with the CRE, has amended its equal opportunities data requirements and made them criteria for registration.

Simon Kelleway, Construc-tionline director, said: "Our initiative with the CRE will enable clients to view at pre-qualification companies' responses to questions on equal opportunities and race equality, and evaluate these to ensure all their contractors have good enough equality standards for the contract in question, as recommended in the new CRE guidelines."