Site work & trades
The green card is the door. Everything after it is up to you.
This week: free CSCS course
1–2 weeks, funded if you're out of work. Health & safety test plus your green Labourer card — the door onto any site in the country.
£0 · fundedFirst job: labourer
£24–28k, immediate starts through agencies or direct. Only a Basic DBS — anything spent is invisible.
Basic check onlyYear 1–2: pick a trade
Groundworks, plastering, bricklaying, plant tickets (dumper, roller, digger). You earn while you train — most tickets take days, not years.
The ceiling: there isn't one
Skilled trades £35–50k+. A lot of people go self-employed from here on day rates.
Route to self-employmentNot sure where your record stands? Since October 2023 most records become spent far sooner than people assume — and spent records are invisible to a Basic check, like the ones on this route.
Check yours — it stays on your phone →Real places to start
Links open the real provider. Good:Folk never sits in the middle.
Employers that actively hire on this route
Public programmes for hiring people with convictions — doors that actually open.
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