Social care

CONTRACTS & DEALS: 15-19 APRIL 2024

This week’s new contracts & deals include: Oleeo, Randstad, Sirona Medical, Workday

Supplier, Your business 15 April 2024

Caremark launches eBike partnership with Eskuta to attract staff

A provider of domiciliary care has launched an eBike initiative to create new job opportunities for people without access to personal transport.

Your business 11 April 2024

CONTRACTS & DEALS: 4-8 MARCH 2024

This week’s new contracts & deals include: Salt, The City Recruiter, Zelo Digital

Your business, Your recruitment business 4 March 2024
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Home care provider starts third level education fund for staff and children

Caremark has launched a recruitment initiative to fund staff, or their children, through an Open University degree.

Your business, Your recruitment business 1 February 2024

Dept for Education campaign to encourage staff to teach in Further Education

The Department for Education’s Teach in Further Education campaign is calling on those with industry experience to teach in FE.

Your business, Your recruitment business 18 January 2024

New migrant salary thresholds: necessary hardline or financial own goal for UK government?

Newly-proposed government changes to work immigration rules will cause significant difficulties for recruiters and employers, immigration lawyers have warned.

Your business, Your recruitment business 11 December 2023

Leicestershire care provider given slavery order from GLAA

The owner of a Leicestershire-based home care service provider has been handed a Slavery and Trafficking Risk Order (STRO).

Your business, Legislation/Regulation 29 November 2023

Recruiters and businesses await the chancellor’s Autumn Statement

The Autumn Statement later today will have financial implications for recruiters and businesses alike.

Legislation/Regulation 22 November 2023

NEW TO THE MARKET: 6-10 NOVEMBER 2023

This week’s new launches include: Cloud Assess, Nash Squared, Reed, RFS Evolve, Stockport Council, The City Recruiter, Travelodge, WorkFolk, YunoJuno

Supplier, Your business 6 November 2023

Baltimore Consulting promotes Groves to associate director

Bristol-based recruiter Baltimore Consulting has announced a promotion within its team, appointing special educational (SEN) and disabilities specialist Jordan Groves as associate director of education.

Your recruitment business 7 November 2022

CONTRACTS & DEALS: 12-16 SEPTEMBER 2022

This week’s new contracts & deals include: Pagabo

Your business, Your recruitment business 12 September 2022

NHS England recruitment drive welcomes thousands of healthcare support workers

NHS England reports that 35,000 offers of healthcare support worker jobs have been made since the end of January, with 25,000 already having started in the roles.

Your business 5 September 2022

Digital strategy aims to transform healthcare workforce

The government has launched the national digital workforce strategy in health and social care.

Your business, Your recruitment business 11 July 2022

APPOINTMENTS: 11-15 JULY 2022

This week’s appointments include: EML Payments, Franklin Fitch, Heidrick & Struggles, Tempest Resourcing

Supplier, Your business 11 July 2022

NHS must keep innovating and be truly tech-driven, says Hancock

The pandemic has accelerated digital transformation in the NHS, according to the Rt Hon Matt Hancock MP, former secretary of state for health.

Your business, Your recruitment business 6 July 2022

Giving Back Day gives New Directions staff work for a good cause

Employees at recruitment group New Directions are being encouraged to do their bit for a cause close to their heart with the introduction of a fully paid Giving Back Day.

Your recruitment business 22 June 2022

Not enough nurses to meet patient needs safely

A new report by the Royal College of Nursing warns that eight in 10 (83%) nurses contend there weren’t enough nursing staff to meet all patient needs safely and effectively on their last shift.

Your recruitment business, Temporary workforce 7 June 2022

Globus.ai raises $4.8m to scale up and enter US market

Staffing AI company Globus.ai has announced that it has raised around $4.8m (£3.8m) from seed funding led by Alliance Venture and Scale Capital.

Your recruitment business, Temporary workforce 31 May 2022

More arrests surrounding recruitment agency in alleged modern slavery offences

There have been further arrests following the owners of a recruitment agency being taken into custody in December last year.

Your recruitment business 10 May 2022

REC letter to health minister calls for equal treatment for NHS agency workers

The Recruitment & Employment Confederation (REC) is calling for equal treatment of NHS agency workers with NHS staff.

Supplier, Temporary workforce 28 April 2022

APPOINTMENTS: 14-18 MARCH 2022

This week’s appointments include: Calibre One, Cielo, Forsyth Barnes, New Directions Health and Social Care

Your recruitment business 16 March 2022

CONTRACTS & DEALS: 17-21 JANUARY 2022

This week’s new contracts & deals include: K2 Partnering Solutions, Tezlom

Your business, Your recruitment business 19 January 2022

Labour supply problems to persist later in the decade

The biggest constraint on growth in the UK is a labour shortage, a behavioural economist has warned.

Your business, Your recruitment business 18 January 2022

Vibe Recruit merges with Paterson Personnel and expands into South England

Welsh-based recruitment firm Vibe Recruit is marking the new year by expanding into the South of England with the merger and subsequent rebranding of Paterson Personnel.

Your recruitment business 10 January 2022

ARC asks Chancellor to reinstate VAT concession for staffing agencies

The Association of Recruitment Consultancies (ARC) has this week sent a letter to the Chancellor of the Exchequer proposing the reinstatement of the VAT Staff Hire Concession.

Temporary workforce, Legislation/Regulation 10 December 2021
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