Hampshire county council signs contract with Manpower

Manpower, the recruitment company, has announced it has signed a three year contract to manage the supply of all temporary staff to Hampshire County Council.

With immediate effect, Manpower has taken responsibility for managing the supply of all temporary staff such as general administrative and clerical workers, care workers, social workers and professional staff such as surveyors, to all the County Council departments.

The new partnership has been designed to standardise, formalise and streamline the ways in which the County Council works with different temporary recruitment providers. Prior to the contract award Hampshire County Council worked with over 130 recruitment suppliers providing temporary workers. The new agreement will provide improved accountability, management information and cost savings. In the first year, the improvement in value-for-money is expected to be in excess of 250,000 and more is anticipated in subsequent years.

Leader of Hampshire County Council, Councillor Ken Thornber comments: ìWe have a responsibility to deliver a wide range of public services and to do this we require the right staff. We selected Manpower for this contract following a rigorous tendering process and believe they can help us access motivated and talented people more effectively to provide valuable support for our existing staff.

Peter Dixon, Head of Public Sector business at Manpower adds: ìThe challenges local councils face in how to get the best value and service from their recruitment process and HR function is the same as with any organisation. Through utilising a best practice approach with a focus on effectiveness and service delivery, weíre confident that we can meet the needs of Hampshire County Council.î

Manpower has significant expertise in working with public sector clients and works with over 100 councils nationwide tailoring the staffing solution to each client requirement. The company is also a shareholder in Working Links, a public private partnership organisation, helping the hardest to help groups back to work by breaking down the barriers they often face. Since its creation in 2000 Working Links has helped over 30,000 long term unemployed people get back into work and stay in work; this makes it one of the Governmentís most successful deliverers of the back to work agenda.