Jordan's Story

Jordan is 24 and lives in Kingston upon Hull East, one of England's most deprived constituencies. He wants to train as a bricklayer, but construction training providers in Yorkshire and The Humber have unfilled places while local housing targets remain unmet. HM Treasury and CITB treat infrastructure spending as a deficit risk rather than recognizing it as the mechanism that puts skilled tradespeople to work building homes that already have planning permission. The workers are available, the training capacity exists, but Westminster's funding choices block progress. This episode examines how central government decisions create artificial scarcity in construction training while housing need grows. Blocked Britain investigates when government choices stop ordinary people from contributing to society.