Cleaning

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Asset Skills works closely with employers and the main cleaning trade bodies to help raise the sector's image.

Cleaning is often perceived as a dead end job but it is far from that. Cleaning can actually offer a viable career with clear paths of progression.

It is an essential job in so many ways - keeping infection and diseases at bay on hospital wards, restoring order to messy offices and often dealing with customer enquiries.

Training is important. Cleaners deal with hazardous chemicals every day - it is crucial they have the skills to carry out such duties safely and effectively.

Our Sector Skills Agreement (SSA) research highlighted a high staff turnover in the industry.

Effective training and development can help cut this and improve the standing of cleaners at the same time.

Cleaning news

Asset Skills launches a Good Practice Guide to Daytime Cleaning.

The cleaning boss who trains prisoners.

The Team Clean Challenge gets bigger and better.

How Train to Gain helped one firm cut staff turnover.

How your company could benefit from Government funding for training.

Careers and qualifications in Cleaning

For an overview of the Cleaning Apprenticeship click here 

For a career progression route table, showing how you could advance your career through qualifications and experience, please click here.

For information on vocational qualifications in cleaning, please see the Qualifications and Standards section of this website.