With the growth in UK population and our increasing lifespans, the UK has an ever increasing number of older people. 247 Professional Health’s Director Roz Armitage reflects on the sweeping changes that the care services industry has undergone over the last 20 years and the creation of the domiciliary care market. Up to the early 1980s, the [...]

Questions: Have you not found what you are looking for in your career? Are you sick of living under the threat of redundancy? Are you sick of perhaps being redundant? Are you sick of the tribal issues in the company you work for? Are you looking for something to be passionate about? Do you want [...]

The recession may be over but the turbulent last couple years has taken its toll leaving many people out of work and redundant. With the current unemployment figure being the highest since the mid 1990’s, it’s obvious that there are many looking for work or wondering how best to get their lives back on track. For [...]

Yesterday was a great day. Spent most of it in transit to; attending and returning from a meeting with a local authority to discuss the latter stages of  a tender application to provide social and domiciliary care in one of our large cities. Size of the particular contract up for grabs £8,000,000+. Number of attendees and active in [...]

I wonder how many of us would join a company without knowing our salary and on target earnings. Not many I guess. When I ask people when they are thinking of setting up a business what they want to earn in their first year that simple question sometimes seems to confuse them. I get answers [...]

A Key Note Market Report examines the UK temporary and contract recruitment market. It profiles the major organisations that recruit on behalf of clients for temporary and/or contract positions, including recruitment consultancies, recruitment companies and employment agencies. In any recession, the recruitment industry is one of the most exposed sectors of the economy, as it [...]