Healthcare recruiter Castlerock Care Services, a national provider of temporary healthcare staff, has been awarded a place on the National Nursing Agency Framework Agreement .
The contract, which replaces the multi-region framework and LAP3 agreements, will see Castlerock supply nurses to all NHS trusts in England for three years from 1 October.
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In response to Alan Rommel ‘s Soapbox, (Recruiter, 8 July 2009), following a profitable financial year in 2006/07, our company invested in an expansion programme to service a wider region. This included opening an office in Warrington and launching an operation to serve Stoke on Trent and Staffordshire. In February 2008, the outlook for these operations was good.
Thousands of workers could be thrown off construction sites after the Learning and Skills Council cut its Train to Gain NVQ funding programme.
Construction news website Building.co.uk reports that the announcement, made at the end of July, affects more than 23,000 staff who have “experienced worker” CSCS cards.
The IT Job Board, www.theitjobboard.co.uk, has appointed Jamie Bowler as its new head of marketing.
Hays is predicting an increase in Canadian, Australian and New Zealand teachers in the UK, despite changes to immigration legislation.
Recruiters from a variety of sectors are hopeful rather than optimistic over the government’s £200bn bank bailout.
Paul Venables
One in five recruiters will go to the wall in the next two years, according to Hays’ finance director Paul Venables
Smith: past year fantastic despite difficult market conditions
A quarter of the Sunday Times 100 fastest growing companies are recruitment agencies.
Three agencies are in the top 10 with Bristol-based JJ Fox coming fourth having reported £9m in sales last year, up 165.6%.
The Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) and KPMG’s Report on Jobs recorded a fifth consecutive month of decline in agencies’ temporary and contract billings, with permanent placements reaching 28.6 index points (with 50 indicating no change) in December.