The IA route was withdrawn to meet Construction Leadership Council recommendations<\/a>, which state that all construction industry card schemes must operate with nationally recognised qualifications in place for all occupations. Cards issued under IA were done so on the strength of an employer recommendation rather than a recognised qualification.<\/p>\n The tailored guidance below is designed to help cardholders replace their IA cards, depending on their occupation and qualifications, while a list of FAQs is also available.<\/a><\/p>\n Those requiring a qualification do not\u00a0need to attend college <\/strong>and CITB grants<\/a> are available until to end of December 2025\u00a0to support CITB-registered employers achieve recognised qualifications.<\/p>\n Members of CSCS-approved professional bodies can apply for a Professionally Qualified Person card<\/a>, while those who completed employer-sponsored apprenticeships resulting in a City and Guilds of London Institute Craft or Advanced Craft certificate can apply for a full-term Blue<\/a> or Gold Skilled Worker<\/a> card respectively.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" All cards previously issued under Industry Accreditation (IA) have now expired and the route is closed. The…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":128276,"parent":4,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-127920","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cscs.uk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/127920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cscs.uk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cscs.uk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cscs.uk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cscs.uk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127920"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cscs.uk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/127920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131628,"href":"https:\/\/www.cscs.uk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/127920\/revisions\/131628"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cscs.uk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cscs.uk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cscs.uk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}