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Attracting and retaining talent in the public sector following COVID-19: is your workforce strategy agile and resilient?
In this paper we explore ways in which you can rise to the opportunities and challenges of attracting and retaining talent in the public sector, as the long term impact of coronavirus continues to unfold.
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Legal services - 4 steps to a successful fee structure
The private sector is moving away from hourly rates and creating a range of mutually beneficial fee models. This whitepaper explores how such fee structures can be adopted in the public sector.
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From recruitment to retention, we’re here to help
For many organisations, people are their most precious asset – but also their biggest expenditure. People procurement involves a delicate balancing act to attract and retain the skilled staff and expert support you need, in an efficient and compliant way, without paying over the odds.
At CCS our experienced category team can help you with everything from management consultancy and legal advice for the times when you need to lean on specialist experts, to temporary and permanent recruitment, apprenticeship training, learning and development, interpreting and translation services, contact centre solutions and more.
Our people agreements
Whatever your need we have a commercial solution that will help you access the expertise you need quickly, compliantly and effectively.
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Workforce
Recruitment and apprenticeship training solutions to support your strategic workforce planning and talent management programmes.
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Health workforce
We’re working with NHS Procurement in Partnership to provide health workforce services as the NHS Workforce Alliance.
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Supply teachers
Choose our Department for Education supported deal to fill a range of education based roles from head teachers to clerical staff.
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People services
From apprenticeship training and learning and development, to interpreting and translation, employee benefits and occupational health.
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Professional services
Legal, audit and assurance, corporate finance and management consultancy services for the times when you need specialist advice and support.
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Contact centres
Access expert suppliers to help you with everything from traditional telephony to robotics, web chat and back office processing.
Knowledge is power. Explore our latest news, blogs, case studies and events. Download our whitepapers and on-demand webinars for industry insight and best practice advice.
Blogs and news
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New ‘end-to-end’ outsourced services agreement goes live
Crown Commercial Service (CCS) has awarded a new Contact Centre and Business Services framework - with key improvements to service delivery
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Support financial wellbeing with an employee discount scheme
Employee wellbeing continues to be a top priority for employers. Research conducted by Edenred, found 57% of employers think poor wellbeing is the biggest threat to performance.
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Cycle to work: help your employees saddle up and save
In this article, we discuss the benefits of cycle to work schemes and share our top tips on how to set up a successful scheme.
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Case studies
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Schools in Tower Hamlets set to save £250,000 on supply teachers
Discover how our Supply Teachers and Temporary Staff framework has enabled Tower Hamlets Education Partnership to help their member schools make considerable savings in our latest case study
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Supply Teachers deal leads to increased savings, quality and compliance for 17 academies
Read how one multi-academy trust benefitted from our Supply Teachers deal.
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Permanent Recruitment framework helps DVLA recruit specialist roles they were struggling to fill
This case study outlines how our Permanent Recruitment framework helped the DVLA attract external talent for senior level posts they were struggling to fill.
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Bringing power to your procurement
Your buying decisions have the power to make life better for everyone across the country. Find out why you should be making those decisions with CCS.
Webinars, whitepapers and brochures
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Tackling modern slavery in our supply chains
Stamping out modern slavery in our supply chains is one of the UK government's top priorities. Watch our webinar to find out more.
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Delivering social value through public sector procurement
We will discuss the implications of the Social Value Act on public sector buyers and the growing demand for social value through contracts.
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Commercial agreements: spring 2021 digital brochure
Download our updated digital brochure for the latest information on our agreements and how we can help you add power to your procurement.
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Get in touch
We're here to help power your procurement. Tell us if there is something we can help you with and one of our expert team members will be in touch.
Talk to us
CCS customer services team is available
Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm.
Email:
info@crowncommercial.gov.uk
Telephone:
0345 410 2222