Jayde's Story

Jayde, 31, from Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough wanted to retrain in construction to help build the homes Yorkshire desperately needs. Training providers had unfilled places while local housing targets remained unmet, but HM Treasury's approach to infrastructure spending blocked the connection. When central government treats construction investment as a deficit risk rather than the mechanism that puts skilled workers into jobs building homes with planning permission already approved, ready workers and available training capacity go unused. The constraint wasn't resources or demand, it was Westminster's political choice. This episode examines how monetary policy thinking stops communities from training the builders they need. Blocked Britain is produced independently. We receive no government or corporate funding.