fita training and Q+A card. Is it a scam?

Hello I’m after some help. I have googled but cannot find an exact answer. Google has brought me to this forum on numerous searches so I have signed up. What a chore that is also. I work for two large flooring firms. I don’t want to say who they are as I don’t want to put my job on the line. My problem is I have been forced to go on fita training courses for the one company and the other company has had me doing the Q+A fita tests. In total I must be at around £1000 spent on these courses to get qualified. I don’t have a problem with doing the courses and getting qualified. Now the one company I work for sent me to a building site a few weeks ago to install some rhino floor to the kitchen areas. Site Forman asked for my cscs card (which is out of date but never asked for before) and he refused me entry to the building site. So I ring CSCS to get a new card and they say I need a qualification in flooring. I tell them I’m FITA qualified and that I’m also Q+A carded. Turns out that neither of these qualifications (yes my certificate says qualified from fita) is worth the paper they are written on. I have to have a NVQ. So I get in contact with a company named Flooring Assessments and they talk me through what I have to do. According to them it’s correct that the fita training certificates, courses and the Q+A card test I have done are not recognised. Now I’m very very annoyed. I have spent out around £1000 in compulsory apparent qualifications I need with fita. The biggest piss take is the fact that Flooring Assessments have told me that they will send someone out to assess me on a job for a real NVQ qualification and the bit I cant believe it won’t cost me a penny, its fully funded according to them ( I have my doubts but we will see)

How can these fita people take money off people with false advertising of getting qualified and it’s a made up qualification? Surely it’s illegal? I would presume there are plenty of others in my shoes, I’m considering going to watch dog but I’m afraid that if my name comes out I will lose my job. What would you advise?

 

location....
Nepal? :shock: :lol:

 

Nepal holiday home

Hello Mat. It was you i spoke to on the phone. I would like to stay anonymous please. The company i work for has arranged with your company to assess me next month. Is Floor Skills Flooring Assessments ?

 

Holiday home in Nepal?
I can't even afford a caravan in Skeggy!

So correct me if I'm wrong, Matt, but could I get someone out to assess my work for free, and have an NVQ at the end of it? :?:

 

i've been done.. In a good way tho.. they're very helpful and if you know what you're doing it's a breeze.
Sidney you should go for it, pm matt to arrange a date.... :roll:

 

Cheers mate, that's given me food for thought.

 

The one thing that bothers me is how could I arrange to be assessed when I don't know when I'm working?
What I mean is, I'm booked up for the next fortnight, but after that, who knows?

 

Apologies, *****, I seem to have hijacked your thread

 

speak to matt first, i asked when there was an assesor in the area and booked work in for that day, arranged a time ie 9am first job, met him at customers house rest is history.

 

i have been really silly here. How can i change my user name? I dont want the company to know who i am? PS dont worry. This thread has opened my eyes to how involved these forums are. Learning some great tips on here.

 

So as my card is wrong because my assessor lost half my work and mixed the remainder up with another lad I have a card with textiles instead of impervious :evil: so to re do it correctly would I have to pay to re do or change details ?

 

Thankyou Mat. Your a moderator on here also then?

 

this is matts site matey