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News archive
| 12th May 2011 |
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| £9bn Bill For Public Sector Job Losses | ||
| 12th May 2011 |
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| Can northern council save jobs by temping out staff? (The Guardian) | ||
| 27th April 2011 |
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| Boost for third sector through new skill exchange service | ||
| 28th March 2011 |
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| Boost for SMEs Through new skill exchange service | ||
| 23rd March 2011 |
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| Saving IT jobs in the face of spending cuts (The Guardian) | ||
| 7th March 2011 |
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| The Skill Exchange Partnership (TSEP) | ||
| 18th February, 2011 |
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| Making Redundancy Redundant | ||
| 9th February 2011 |
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| StaffShare service helps retain and spread knowledge across sectors (Recruiter.co.uk) | ||
| 7th February 2011 |
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| New national skills exchange body launched | ||
| 2nd February 2011 |
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| The workforce of the future.. (LG Group Workforce Programme Board) | ||
| 19 January 2011 |
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| Council staff to go on loan to companies (The Telegraph) | ||
| 13th January 2011 |
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| SMALL COMPANIES CAN BENEFIT FROM STAFF SHARING (Microsoft Small Business Centre) | ||
| 11th January 2011 |
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| Local Authorities to pilot online secondment scheme (Computing) | ||
| 11th January 2011 |
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| UK 'still experiencing a shortage of certain employee skills' (Chartered Management Institute) | ||
| 11th January 2011 |
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| Local authorities pilot staff-sharing scheme to tackle budget cuts (HR Network.tv) | ||
| 10th January 2011 |
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| Pilot scheme adopted by local authorities to help combat spending cuts (Randstad) | ||
| 7th January 2011 |
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| Staff sharing scheme to help public sector retain talent (Recruitment HR Zone.co.uk) | ||
| 7th January 2011 |
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| Local authorities to pilot online secondment (Public Technology.net) | ||
| 7th January 2011 |
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| Local Authorities Pilot Staff-Sharing Scheme to Tackle Budget Cuts (Employment Office) | ||
| 7th January 2011 |
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| Local authorities to pilot secondment service (PM Online) | ||
| 5th January 2011 |
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| Pilot scheme to save jobs | ||
| 4th January 2011 |
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| Local government joins new skill-sharing scheme (Local Government Executive) | ||
| January 2011 |
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| Staff retention ''improves when skills are shared" (You At Work) | ||
| December 30th 2010 |
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| Local government backs new skill-sharing scheme | ||
| December 16th 2010 |
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| News release | ||
| December 2010 |
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| Support from Local Government Group (Local Government Group) | ||
| June 2010 |
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| Support from ACAS (ACAS) | ||
| March 2010 |
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| StaffShare News | ||
| May 2009 |
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| The Prime Minister 29th May 2009 |
Press Support and Contact
StaffShare wishes to encourage local and national press, trade journals and feature writers to use their media voice and channels to educate, inform and spread the aims and principles of the ‘exchange of skills’ to save skills, add flexibility in the workforce and maintain job roles and employment. StaffShare sponsored a 'conversation' Event at the TUC yesterday (26th April) where the panel, which included TUC general secretary, Brendan Barber, and ACAS chief executive, John Taylor, discussed ‘Why redundancy isn’t working’, and the alternatives that provide practical ways to reduce costs and retain skills. StaffShare was represented by David Lennan former director general of the British Chambers of Commerce and a founder of Staffshare. See the Press reprts on the left column for details. For further information about this event go to: www.staffshare.co.uk/newsletter1.php OR
www.REDUNDANCYisntWORKing.co.uk
For further information about alternatives to redundancy:
The founders and indeed all at StaffShare will be delighted to help you wherever we can - through relevant comment, press releases and interviews with ourselves or our growing supporters from within public and private sectors across the UK.
In the first instance please feel free to access any part of this web site and contact our PR Consultant should you require assistance or further information.
Michael E Hardware
Executive Vice President
Chelgate Limited
One Tanner Street
London, SE1 3LE
ddt: +44 (0)20 7939 7989
t: +44 (0)20 7939 7939
m: +44 (0)7775 925274
e: meh@chelgate.com
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Below are a number of downloadable Press Releases and other files and references that may be of assistance to you.
About StaffShare flyer
PDF | Word
How Does StaffShare Work flyer
PDF | Word
StaffShare introduction presentation
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£9bn Bill For Public Sector Job Losses
And that is just the start ...
The 300,000 job losses forecast in the public sector will cost central and local government an estimated £9billion just for the redundancies. If only a small proportion of those redundancies could be avoided, it could save the economy billions, according to StaffShare, the online skill exchange.
Figures produced by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) give the average cost of making an employee redundant in the public sector as £29,400. In 2010, 111,000 general government jobs were lost, which have already cost some £3.2billion.
"And this is just the start," said Phil Flaxton, founding director of StaffShare. "In addition, the real costs of redundancy also include the unemployment and other benefits to be paid, the loss of taxation, and the loss of VAT due to lower spending by those not working. There is also the human cost of being out of work, both for those unemployed and their families."
StaffShare is a simple but revolutionary idea which offers an alternative to redundancy. It is a new on-line skill exchange secondment service which enables organisations to retain skills by hiring out staff to other organisations on a temporary basis, and sharing the costs.
John Taylor, chairman of the Skill Exchange Partnership, a new organisation to promote best practice in the new areas of skill sharing and secondment, said: "Unemployment in any form is damaging and wasteful. The impact on employees and the economy has long term implications and the cycle of recruitment and redundancy is a practice that we should be trying to change. StaffShare is a new and different Social Enterprise and provides a serious and interesting alternative to workplace management. We are totally supportive of this new venture."
Sarah Messenger, head of workforce for the Local Government Group, said: "Local councils are under extraordinary pressure to cut their cost of operation, and looking for ways to help valued employees to move into new roles within the private and third sector is part of that strategy.
Through its online skill exchange StaffShare provides an innovative and practical way to save skills and develop employee careers through secondment to any number of new employers, while significantly cutting costs."
StaffShare (www.staffshare.com) addresses the damaging and expensive skills wastage of redundancy by offering an ingenious online 'skill gallery' - literally an internet marketplace for employers to upload and share employee profiles and CVs - including their skills and expected costs. StaffShare facilitates 'online introductions' between employers wanting valuable skills and those trying to cut costs by finding temporary or even permanent new roles for their under-utilised employees.
Since it was launched in January, 23 local authorities have signed up to StaffShare as part of a Local Government Employers' pilot scheme. These include Hertfordshire, Surrey, Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, Kent, West Sussex and Suffolk county councils, the London Boroughs of Haringey, Hounslow, Ealing, Havering, Tower Hamlets, Croydon, Richmond upon Thames and Westminster, and Colchester, Southend, Sandwell, Thurrock, Forest Heath and Edmundsbury, St. Albans District and North Dorset District councils, and Leeds City Council.
Phil Flaxton, continued: "All these local authorities recognise the potential for StaffShare to save jobs and skills, and reduce the cycle of redundancy and recruitment with the associated short- and long-term costs."
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Issued on behalf of StaffShare Limited by Chelgate Limited.
Notes to editors
- StaffShare is a social enterprise. The organisation's board has committed to donate a minimum of 10 per cent of its cleared annual profits to selected UK and EU charities to encourage education, apprenticeships, training and skill development.
- The Skill Exchange Partnership is chaired by John Taylor, the chief executive of ACAS. It is a formal and qualified body of individuals representing key areas of work, skill retention and employment. This wholly independent, not-for-profit, non-political professional partnership has the objective of focusing on and acting towards extending new ideas, opinions and specific programmes to face the challenges presented in today's complex world of employment.
- Further information about StaffShare and the Skill Exchange Partnership can be found on its website www.staffshare.com.
- Follow StaffShare on Twitter @staffshare.
For further information, please contact:
Michael Hardware, Chelgate PR, on 020 7939 7989 or 07775 925 274 or meh@chelgate.com
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