ALLMI recently announced that further to extensive discussions, it has formed an agreement with CPCS that sees ALLMI lorry loader cardholders made eligible to apply for red CPCS cards, providing the cardholder has passed the ConstructionSkills Health & Safety Touch Screen Test within the two years prior to application.  ALLMI cardholders using this route will then have until the end of the life of their red CPCS card to achieve the relevant S/NVQ which will qualify them for the blue CPCS card.  This agreement between ALLMI and CPCS is expected to be in place for a period of one year, during which time ALLMI and CPCS will hold further discussions in order to continue to support each other’s activities, to build upon this positive step forward and to determine the nature of a permanent agreement. 

ALLMI Executive Director, Tom Wakefield, comments “we’re very pleased to have reached this agreement.  It represents significant progress and it demonstrates the strength of the relationship between ALLMI and CPCS.  The next step in this process is to form a working group consisting of ALLMI, ConstructionSkills and industry representatives, with a view towards further aligning the two schemes and to formulating a permanent arrangement.”