Fixing the Future: Workforce Challenges in Housing Repairs
12 May 2025
Join us for an interactive workshop and learn how to tackle the skills shortage!
July 9, 2025 | 10:30 - 15:30 | Derby
Building Skills, Shaping Futures.
With an estimated one million additional tradespeople needed by 2032, what can we be doing now to future proof repairs and maintenance in the housing sector?
Fixing the Future: Workforce Challenges in Housing Repairs is a one-day interactive event that will explore ways to address the skill shortages in housing maintenance, empowering you to drive business growth and success.
This unique event, facilitated by PfP Thrive in partnership with Direct Works, lets you connect with your colleagues from across the sector as you find shared workforce solutions to the challenge of maintaining high-quality social housing for years to come.
The future of repairs and maintenance is built on learning and depends on how we grow and adapt today…
Why attend?
- Hear from the experts – Understand the key training and recruitment challenges facing the housing sector
- Help shape the future – Harness the power of apprenticeships, upskilling and Community impact initiatives
- Networking opportunities – Connect and collaborate with peers and panellists to help drive solutions
Who is this event for?
If you are keen to tap into the solutions for tackling future skills shortages, this event is for you.
The event will appeal to those working in senior roles in the housing sector within the field of repairs and maintenance, including senior repair and maintenance leaders, managers and directors.
Please note, this event is only open to those working for Housing Providers or Maintenance Contractors.