Warm Homes Plan Workforce Taskforce: terms of reference
Published 21 January 2026
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Background
This is a partnership between government, trade unions, local government, business and civil society that provides strategic leadership to support delivery of the government’s Warm Homes Plan.
Delivering clean power by 2030 is one of the government’s 5 key missions. The ‘Warm Homes Plan’ is a step towards a future where every home and building is cheaper to run, smarter and powered by clean, homegrown British power.
The ‘Warm Homes Plan’ advances home decarbonisation in this parliament, lowering people’s bills, decarbonising the buildings sector and cutting fuel poverty. Hundreds of thousands of jobs, for both new entrants and retrained and upskilled workers, will be needed to meet the government’s ambitions to upgrade up to 5 million homes.
Purpose
The Warm Homes Plan Workforce Taskforce, co-led by the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) and the Trades Union Congress (TUC), facilitates the transition, creation and growth of a diverse, skilled and resilient workforce which meets the evolving demand generated by the ‘Warm Homes Plan’.
The sectors and technologies covered are batteries, fabric insulation, heat networks, heat pumps, and solar panels for domestic buildings and new builds.
The job roles include installers, maintenance workers, and retrofit coordinators and assessors.
Objectives
The taskforce advises and works with ministers through these objectives:
- develop tools, including a workforce plan, to support the delivery of good, well- paid UK jobs in the heat and building sectors to deliver up to 5 million home upgrades by 2030
- provide expert insight relevant to the sectors, technologies and initiatives in the ‘Warm Homes Plan’
- support actions in the ‘Clean Energy Jobs Plan’, including policy levers to raise the bar on job quality, into the ‘Warm Homes Plan’ sectors
- collaborate with the wider civil and business communities including the devolved regions to support regional delivery
Membership
Co-chairs
- Minister McCluskey, Minister for Energy Consumers, DESNZ
- Kate Bell, Assistant General Secretary, TUC
Taskforce core members
- Andy Prendergast, National Secretary, GMB Union
- Anna Scothern, Chief Executive, the National Home Improvement Council
- Cara Jenkinson, interim Head of Cities, Ashden Climate Solutions and National Retrofit Hub
- Chris Galpin, Senior Policy Advisor, E3G
- Claire Ward, Deputy Chair, Mayoral Council for England
- Ian Woodcroft, Head of Policy and Government Relations, Construction Industry Training Board
- Jason Poulter, National Officer, Unite
- Louise Shooter, Head of Heat Decarbonisation, Energy UK
Governance
Minister McCluskey and Kate Bell shall co-chair the taskforce meetings, with the secretariat overseen by a senior civil servant. Recommendations made by the taskforce will be put to the department for consideration.
The taskforce can request advice from, and attendance by, other experts in areas relevant to taskforce discussions.
The taskforce will work with other government initiatives and industry boards that are looking at workforce planning, such the ‘Clean Energy Jobs Plan’ and the Construction Skills Mission Board.
The taskforce is a 12-to-18-month task and finish group. The co-chairs will work with the secretariat to monitor the effectiveness of the taskforce in meeting its intended objectives, and will regularly review whether there is a need to change or extend its structure and purpose within government policies and funding.