One of the biggest challenges justice providers face is keeping hold of candidates during the vetting process. Prison vetting can take 2–3 months. During this period, the risk of
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Dynamic Purchasing Systems (DPS) backed by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) play a vital role in delivering employment support services. These projects are designed to offer flexible, localised
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The Real Cost of Hiring the Wrong Restart Advisor (A starts-first view with some simple maths) At Red 5 People, we don’t just recruit for Restart contracts—we’ve lived them. A
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Recruiting for justice contracts is never simple—but since the launch of CFO Evolution in summer 2025, it’s become even more complex. CFO Evolution, the successor to CFO3 (which ended in
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Why Hiring for Restart Advisors Is Like the Film Moneyball If you’ve seen the film Moneyball, you’ll remember the core premise: building a winning baseball team not by chasing
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Recruiting for specialist roles is never straightforward, and finding Business Advisors for Ixion Holdings’ New Enterprise Allowance (NEA) contract was definitely a challenge. Luckily, Red 5 People love a good
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Recently, we’ve had the privilege of working with the team at Mencap to provide career coaching and CV support to staff affected by funding changes and redundancies. We volunteered our
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As part of our commitment to giving back, I recently had the opportunity to volunteer at Working Men’s College in Camden. I ran a mock interview workshop for a group
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The UK government’s decision to remove the requirement for apprentices over 19 to attain Level 2 Functional Skills in English and maths marks a significant shift in the education sector.
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A lot of our clients just plug into our services as they need them for those tricky hires. We recently reviewed the work we did from 2017 – 2022 with
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