It's an ongoing annoyance to people of 45yo+, who did an apprenticeship in the 70's/80's, but now don't have the qualifications to become a QS with NIC/Napit, or, get the JIB Gold Card. Annoying for me, I had both in the early 2010's, but, took a paid , employed job, so I had no need for either of them any more, so gave them up. Fast Forward to 2021, and I'm now a Technician, not an Electrician, and cannot get a Gold Card, or be a QS. Past experience is no longer enough. The only option is the C&G2346, and AM2. Roughly £2500 for them.

It isnt just Electricians, at the last Site I was on, some Plumbers also had the same thing, they needed an NVQ3 to renew their cards, Managers were also being pushed to update their qualifications, some had the Black Managers cards, but couldnt renew them through a lack of NVQ.

It's a real pain, I put off doing the C&G2346 for 2 years, but finally paid for it, and need to complete my portfolio to prove I am an Electrician! I've told this one before a few weeks ago, I submitted a few pics of me installing a panel board and 4x 240mm SWA for one of the points required. I got a reply back, 'no need for such things, just show a domestic cu, and a 13a socket wired from it'.

It's an ongoing annoyance to people of 45yo+, who did an apprenticeship in the 70's/80's, but now don't have the qualifications to become a QS with NIC/Napit, or, get the JIB Gold Card. Annoying for me, I had both in the early 2010's, but, took a paid , employed job, so I had no need for either of them any more, so gave them up. Fast Forward to 2021, and I'm now a Technician, not an Electrician, and cannot get a Gold Card, or be a QS. Past experience is no longer enough. The only option is the C&G2346, and AM2. Roughly £2500 for them.

It isnt just Electricians, at the last Site I was on, some Plumbers also had the same thing, they needed an NVQ3 to renew their cards, Managers were also being pushed to update their qualifications, some had the Black Managers cards, but couldnt renew them through a lack of NVQ.

It's a real pain, I put off doing the C&G2346 for 2 years, but finally paid for it, and need to complete my portfolio to prove I am an Electrician! I've told this one before a few weeks ago, I submitted a few pics of me installing a panel board and 4x 240mm SWA for one of the points required. I got a reply back, 'no need for such things, just show a domestic cu, and a 13a socket wired from it'.

I feel your pain.

Even more so when having to deal with admin staff that have probably never terminated a cable in their life, suddenly deciding that they're important enough to tell you that you aren't qualified, just because some other admin person has produced a list for them. It's all 'bums on seats' for them and making sure they get a new list of paying customers regularly flowing through the door. There just isn't anything in it for them to spend time looking to scrutinise clearly erroneous and badly planned decisions that negatively impact the electrical contractors they supposedly represent.

Up until 2021 the CG2330 was deemed a perfectly acceptable qualification and no one can tell me why it was suddenly deemed inferior to the 236 (before) and 2360 (afterwards) - both of which are still acceptable level 3 technical certificates. So anyone that carried out the CG2330 between 2007 and 2012 and didn't complete an accompanying NVQ 3, suddenly has a piece of scrap paper instead of a qualification. This is despite them completing what all the training authorities told them was a recognised industry training programme. If they want to introduce new standards for electricians then fair enough, but they definitely shouldn't be allowed to unilaterally and retrospectively punish those that carried out their qualifications in an arbitrary window of time.