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The end of Stroma

Chris Pearson
Enrolling with Stroma wasn't difficult - it was the best value. Then I met the likes of JP and DZ. ?


Today I received an e-mail saying that the Stroma scheme will cease w.e.f. 1 Aug. As far as I can see, my year's subscription will be unchanged so I appear to gain, but next year's subscription will be substantially higher, so not good.


The lack of competition in the CPS cannot be a good thing, but I am at a loss as to how the situation could be improved. Rant over!
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    If a young electrician decides to join a competency scheme it’s probably a lifetime commitment, transferring to another scheme operator does not seem to be something that many people would do.


    So presumably the new customers will be young electricians going it alone for the first time and older guys starting a second career such as having been in the armed forces who have been on a “short” course, rather than people changing providers.


    There is a lot of older guys dropping out of the schemes, so there’s a good chance the scheme membership numbers are remaining steady or reducing.


    So if there’s going to be less new entrants due to changes in entry requirements and persuading people to change schemes is as I suspect difficult, developing and expanding a scheme is going to be neigh on impossible and doesn’t make it a particularly sustainable business, unless of course schemes can charge scheme members substantially higher fees.
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    If a young electrician decides to join a competency scheme it’s probably a lifetime commitment, transferring to another scheme operator does not seem to be something that many people would do.


    So presumably the new customers will be young electricians going it alone for the first time and older guys starting a second career such as having been in the armed forces who have been on a “short” course, rather than people changing providers.


    There is a lot of older guys dropping out of the schemes, so there’s a good chance the scheme membership numbers are remaining steady or reducing.


    So if there’s going to be less new entrants due to changes in entry requirements and persuading people to change schemes is as I suspect difficult, developing and expanding a scheme is going to be neigh on impossible and doesn’t make it a particularly sustainable business, unless of course schemes can charge scheme members substantially higher fees.
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