Staffline Regulatory News (STAF)

For immediate release 7th November 2014

STAFFLINE GROUP PLC

('Staffline' or 'the Group')

Transforming Rehabilitation contract update

Staffline awarded preferred bidder status with UK Ministry of Justice to run Community Rehabilitation Company (CRC) in Warwickshire & West Mercia

Staffline, the national recruitment, outsourcing, training and Welfare to Work organisation, providing people and operational expertise to industry, is pleased to announce that EOS has been notified it has been selected as Preferred Bidder to provide probation and rehabilitation services in Warwickshire & West Mercia, as part of the UK Ministry of Justice's Transforming Rehabilitation programme. Transforming Rehabilitation is a reform programme that is changing the way offenders are managed in the community to bring down reoffending rates while continuing to protect the public.

The contract will see EOS manage the delivery of all probation and rehabilitation services to low and medium risk offenders across Warwickshire & West Mercia, including support for offenders who are released after serving prison sentences of less than 12 months. This group, which numbers around 50,000 nationally, currently receives no supervision or rehabilitation support after release despite accounting for the highest rates of re-offending.

Andy Hogarth, Chief Executive of Staffline, commented:

"We are delighted to have been awarded preferred bidder status by the UK Ministry of Justice. As a national recruitment services company and a leading provider of four Welfare to Work contracts as well as a provider of young people's support services, we believe our continued effectiveness and unique approach has been central to this successful award. We look forward to working alongside the probation and rehabilitation services to support the broader community in Warwickshire & West Mercia."

About Staffline

Staffline Group plc was historically a recruitment organisation specialising in food processing, manufacturing, e-retail, driving and logistics. We provide and manage industrial workforces and use training and business improvement techniques to ensure increased levels of efficiency to give our clients a significant commercial advantage. Our recruitment business now operates from well over 200 locations in the UK, Ireland and Poland, supplying up to 33,000 temporary workers each day. 

Our recruitment brands now include Select Appointments, providing white collar office staff and Staffline Express, providing blue collar staff, both High Street branch operations. Staffline OnSite is based on clients' premises and also provides both blue collar and white collar temporary staff, Driving+ provides HGV drivers, Staffline Agriculture provides workers to the UK farming and growing sectors, while Resourcing Plus offers cost effective permanent recruitment solutions.

Our other areas of operation include Elpis, a national training and consultancy organisation, OSP, a specialist volume recruitment call centre and Avanta (which includes Staffline's original EOS), a provider of Welfare to Work and skills training services across the UK helping the long term unemployed back in to work. We expanded our training capabilities in 2013 with Learning Plus, a technologically advanced e-learning platform designed to deliver extremely cost effective work-based skills training.