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Monitor found that overspend on agency staff arose from a need to "cover vacancies and unplanned demand".
Some jobs will go in natural wastage, not filling vacancies and voluntary redundancy, however, we cannot escape the fact that some losses will be frontline posts that, given a choice, councils would not want to see go.
Don't stop them filling vacancies that need to be filled".
But today, there are already shortages in nursing and general practice, and – as the economy recovers – filling vacancies without paying better might become impossible.
Last week we revealed that cut-price supermarket Aldi was expanding its graduate recruitment scheme, and now budget fashion chain T K Maxx is following suit, creating 750 vacancies this year.
It is our failure in the past to reform welfare and training that has meant we have left too many of our young people in a system without proper skills or proper incentives to work... …and have instead seen large numbers of people coming from overseas to fill vacancies in our economy.
Even with that capacity, visitors often came to find no vacancies and were forced to press on to nearby Buxton, Alexandra or Healesville.
Councils are encouraged to recruit from the pool to fill short term contract vacancies.
Online, and in Thursday's Guardian, we look at where the jobs are in Europe: there are, in fact, hundreds of thousands of vacancies.
I would argue that our ability to build a party that we want, the structures that we want, the targeting strategies that we want and the ways in which we tackle diversity … that opportunity is much greater for us because we have a lot of vacancies.
