Post Tagged with: "agency"

CEC new interim chief executive to be paid £1,200 a day

CEC new interim chief executive to be paid £1,200 a day

By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Cheshire East Council is to pay its new stand-in boss a whopping £1,200 a day.

David Parr’s appointment as the authority’s interim chief executive is expected to be rubber-stamped at full council on Wednesday (October 18).

October 11, 2023
Cheshire East social workers moving to Stoke for higher pay, says councillor

Cheshire East social workers moving to Stoke for higher pay, says councillor

By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Cheshire East is training up social workers to fill vacancies but some then hop over the border to Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire because they pay more, a councillor has said.

Like most local authorities, Cheshire East has to rely on agency staff because it can’t recruit enough social workers.

June 7, 2023
Bentley Motors to recruit for 200 new roles at Crewe factory

Bentley Motors to recruit for 200 new roles at Crewe factory

Bentley Motors has launched a recruitment drive creating 200 new roles at the Crewe-based car marker.

The drive is part of the company’s Beyond100 strategy, but comes just days after letting go more than 80 agency staff.

January 29, 2023
Bentley to lay off 87 agency workers despite record sales

Bentley to lay off 87 agency workers despite record sales

Hundreds of agency workers at Bentley Motors have been told their jobs are under threat – despite record sales for the car maker in 2022.

Stunned workers were handed a letter warning them that the company wants to lay off up to 87 Adecco agency staff at the Crewe factory.

January 12, 2023
Agency care staff in Cheshire East command up to £75 an hour

Agency care staff in Cheshire East command up to £75 an hour

By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Agency rates for care staff are “going through the roof” with some nursing homes having to pay £75 an hour for a qualified nurse, one of the council’s top bosses has said.

The demand for NHS and care staff is mounting with vacancies unfilled across the country.

November 22, 2021
Cheshire East spends nearly £1.4 million on agency workers

Cheshire East spends nearly £1.4 million on agency workers

By Ethan Davies, local democracy reporter
More than £1.3 million was spent on agency social workers by Cheshire East Council last year.

A Freedom of Information request to the council shows that officials sanctioned a £1,370,528 spend on agency social workers in the 2019-20 municipal term.

October 4, 2020
Nantwich school warning after pupils approached by bogus modelling agency

Nantwich school warning after pupils approached by bogus modelling agency

Nantwich parents have been warned about a bogus modelling agency approaching secondary school students in South Cheshire and pressuring them to send inappropriate images.

January 23, 2020
Two friends launch new creative design agency Off Grid in Shavington

Two friends launch new creative design agency Off Grid in Shavington

A new independent Creative Design Agency, called Off Grid, has launched in South Cheshire.

Two friends Sally Evans and Kim Farrall have teamed up to run the new enterprise, based in Shavington.

June 22, 2017
trCreative agency is latest Nantwich Food Festival backer

trCreative agency is latest Nantwich Food Festival backer

An award-winning digital and design agency in Nantwich is to be one of the key backers behind the 2015 Nantwich Food Festival.

trCreative, run by Lynsey Edwards, has signed up as a main sponsor for the event which attracts tens of thousands of people to the town in early September.

April 1, 2015