Health recruiter Multi group has acquired Dream Group, which specialises in providing outsourced solutions to the policing sector, and is also in education and health.

Multi plans to change its name to Servoca plc.

Dream chief executive Darren Browne will be chief executive of the new enlarged company. As reported on Recruiter, 21 March, Oliver Cooke (pictured) will step down from his position as executive chairman.

The cost of the acquisition is £5.5m.

Multi shares, suspended since November, have now resumed trading on the Alternative Investment Market.