Public sector

NEW TO THE MARKET: 5-9 MAY 2025

This week’s new launches include: Heidrick & Struggles, Matrix, ProdigyPB, Project Brains

Supplier, Technology 6 May 2025

Humly acquires London-based education recruiter

Digital education recruitment platform Humly has finalised the purchase of London-based supply agency Future Education.

Temporary workforce, Your business 1 May 2025

NHS Trust plans to cut jobs and agency staff

The BBC reports today [30 April 2025] that the North-West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust is planning job cuts, as well as cutting its expenditure on bank and agency staff.

Temporary workforce, Your business 30 April 2025

APPOINTMENTS: 28 APRIL-2 MAY 2025

This week’s appointments include: Eames Consulting, Faststream Recruitment Group, Gi Group, Heidrick & Struggles, Oyster, Starfish Search, Sellick Partnership

Supplier, Your business 28 April 2025

APPOINTMENTS: 14-18 APRIL 2025

This week’s appointments include: Eventus Recruitment Group, Matrix, SPG Resourcing

Supplier, Your business 14 April 2025

Californian master plan calls for new statewide collaborative to align education, training and hiring needs

In the US, the state of California is proposing to launch digital career passports for the labour market.

Your business, Your recruitment business 14 April 2025

Recruiter Searchability transitions to employee-owned

Tech recruitment firm Searchability has announced its transition to employee ownership via an Employee Ownership Trust (EOT).

Your recruitment business 8 April 2025

FINANCIALS: Staffline results exceed market expectations

Recruitment group Staffline has announced a strong performance for the year ended 31 December 2024.

Financials, Your recruitment business 8 April 2025

Zero-hours contracts must be ‘transparent and consistent’ says REC’s Shoesmith

Government must ensure that “transparency and consistency” exist around zero-hours contracts that workers can request.

Your business, Your recruitment business 1 April 2025

ID Medical gets sole deal for Central and North West London NHS

ID Medical Mental Health, a specialist division of recruiter ID Medical Group, has been appointed as the sole supplier for the provision of locum doctors to the Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust.
Your recruitment business 24 July 2013

Advanced 365 manages services for Merseyside Fire & Rescue

Merseyside Fire & Rescue Service has signed a five-year deal for managed services provider Advanced 365 to host and deliver its finance, HR, payroll and procurement services.
Your recruitment business 24 July 2013

GPS locums framework places for 39 recruiters

The new Government Procurement Service (GPS) framework for the supply of locum doctors to the NHS has gone live, with a total of 39 recruitment providers appointed.
Your recruitment business 23 July 2013

Soundbites July 2013

“What impact will the further cuts in public sector jobs and the 1% cap on public sector pay rises have on the overall talent landscape?”
Your recruitment business 17 July 2013

Editor's Comment - July 2013

The old saying “Lightning never strikes twice” certainly doesn’t apply in this issue, with appearances in our pages by not one but two previous winners of BBC TV’s The Apprentice series: Tim Campbell MBE and Ricky Martin.
Your recruitment business 17 July 2013

Irish police recruitment freeze to be lifted

A recruitment ban within the Irish police force (An Garda Siochana) is to end next year, reports the Press Association.
Your recruitment business 16 July 2013

FINANCIALS: SThree, Morgan Hunt and Rethink Group results

International staffing group SThree, multi-sector recruiter Morgan Hunt and AIM-listed recruiter The Rethink Group have all announced results.
Your recruitment business, Companies 15 July 2013

UK solid as Russia tops growth for recruiters Hays

Recruitment group Hays saw net fees rise 29% in its Russian operation, as the UK market delivered good growth, although Asia-Pacific decline meant only marginal growth was seen group-wide, in a trading update today, available online.
Your recruitment business, Companies 11 July 2013

Far too many competing graduates: FMCG tops applicant rates, finds AGR

The number of graduates competing for each graduate job this year has risen over 50% from last year in some sectors, with FMCG the most oversubscribed sector by far.
Your recruitment business, In-house recruitment 10 July 2013

Maude suggests Ministers should ‘personally appoint’ top civil servants

Cabinet office minister Francis Maude has suggested that government ministers should have “the power to personally appoint civil servants, special advisers and external policy experts”.
In-house recruitment 10 July 2013

Experts zero in on care sector contract concern

There is a consensus that the use of zero hours contracts is likely to rise further within the cash-strapped social care sector.
Your recruitment business, In-house recruitment 10 July 2013

Staffing has been ‘biggest challenge’ for reformed health system, finds NAO

Getting the right staff in place has been the single biggest challenge for the 240 new bodies created across the NHS up to 1 April this year, according to the National Audit Office’s report ‘Managing the transition to the reformed health system’.
In-house recruitment 10 July 2013

OFT asks IT recruiters for their views on SME access

The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) is asking suppliers of IT services such as recruitment into the public sector for their views on how to make it more accessible to SMEs.
Your recruitment business 5 July 2013

Interim needs drive DWP recruitment agency spend

The vast majority of recruitment agency spending at the Department for Work & Pensions (DWP) goes on interims, an answer to a parliamentary question reveals.
Your recruitment business 5 July 2013

247Time hits back over NHS VAT savings criticisms

Vendor management solutions firm 247Time has hit back at media criticism of a service it offers that aims to save the NHS from paying VAT on the supply of temporary agency staff.
Your recruitment business, Legislation/Regulation 4 July 2013

£250m-a-year NHS framework delayed anew as legal proceedings begin

The introduction of a major Government Procurement Service (GPS) framework agreement for the recruitment of nurses and social care staff has again been delayed pending legal proceedings.
3 July 2013
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