Marcus's Story

Marcus is 28 and lives in Worsley and Eccles in the North West. He wanted to retrain in construction, seeing the obvious need for housing in his area. Training providers had unfilled places, and local housing targets remained unmet. But HM Treasury and CITB failed to direct levy funding to areas with the greatest housing need, treating infrastructure spending as a deficit risk rather than the mechanism that puts skilled workers to work building homes that already have planning permission. The workers were available, the training capacity existed. What was missing was a central government willing to make the choice to fund it. This is Marcus's story of how Westminster's priorities blocked his path into construction work. Blocked Britain is produced independently and receives no government or corporate funding.