• New Directions Education has appointed Frank Richards and Paul Hampton as education recruiters in Merseyside. They join business development manager Sarah Hughes who will be working closely with schools to provide teaching and ancillary staff, in schools across the region. Hampton will focus on teaching and cover supervisor staff within the secondary school sector.

• Totum Partners, a professional services recruitment firm, has appointed Chris Lynch as its first non-executive director (NED). Lynch brings a “breadth” of experience from firms such as law firm Linklaters where she was global HR director, and international law firm Herbert Smith Freehills.