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Jason Greaves promoted at recruitment giant
Recruiters at recent seminars on the health checks for staff placed in the National Health Service have complained that the rules sometimes lack clarity and pose difficulties for implementation.
Recruiters need to be careful not to become "database terrorists" and should be more courteous to candidates — not least because of the marketing benefits, recruiters were told at the recent Global ERE Expo 2006 in Amsterdam.

The supply teacher market in UK secondary schools has declined by a quarter as head teachers have turned to less costly cover supervisors, according to Mark Weavis, managing director of national supply teacher agency Teaching Personnel.

Members of the Recruitment and Employment Confederation's (REC) recruitment-to-recruitment group could face expulsion if they do not meet soon-to-be-introduced quality standards.

IT recruiter Lorien has said it was "unable to provide shareholders with a definitive recommendation" on whether to accept the 40p-a-share bid from Southwind (Recruiter, 10 January).

The company's statement to shareholders this month gave a set of reasons for accepting the offer, and then another set of reasons for rejecting it.

Southwind is the Guernsey-based investment

2006 figures will show improvement, however
Review of welfare system to get people back to work
Recruitment agencies have played a part in keeping slavery alive in modern Britain, according to a report from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.

The report said: "Modern slavery exists in the UK in various forms.
Shared values with clients are more important than technical skills when it comes to competing for contracts, and lack of size does not have to be a barrier, Jackie Bedford, the founder of public sector specialist agency Step Ahead, told Recruiter.

Step Ahead's contract wins have included dea
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