Staffline : Prison Education contract wins

RNS Number : 3009M Staffline Group PLC 07 January 2019

7 January 2019

STAFFLINE GROUP PLC

("Staffline" or "the Group")

Prison Education contract wins

Staffline, the Recruitment and Training group, is pleased to announce that its PeoplePlus division has been successful in the latest round of Prison Educa&on tenders, securing contracts worth a total of £104.6 million over a four-year period.

At the Group's interim results, management set a target to double Staffline's share of the Prison Educa&on market from c. 10% to c. 20%, and following the latest round of alloca&ons, Staffline will have a c.25% share and will operate in 22 prisons across the UK. The Group's success in this latest procurement process includes retaining all of Staffline's existing contracts and adding significant further delivery.

Chris Pullen, Chief Executive Officer of Staffline, commented:

"Growing our presence in prison educa on is a key strategic priority for our PeoplePlus division, and I am delighted that we have managed to exceed the target that we set at the interims. This strong performance is underpinned by our innova ve proposi on and demonstrates our con nued success in transi oning PeoplePlus into the UK's leading skills and training provider."

For further information, please contact:

Staffline Group plcwww.stafflinegroupplc.co.uk

via Vigo Communications

Chris Pullen, Chief Executive Officer Michael Watts, Group Chief Financial Officer

Liberum NOMAD and Joint Brokerwww.liberum.com

020 3100 2222

Steve Pearce / Joshua Hughes

Berenberg Joint Brokerwww.berenberg.com Chris Bowman / Toby Flaux

020 3207 7800

Vigo Communications Financial PR

www.vigocomms.com

020 7390 [e-mail]

Jeremy Garcia / Antonia Pollock / Charlie Neish

Market Abuse Regulation

This announcement is released by Staffline Group plc and contains inside informa&on for the purposes of the Market Abuse Regula&on (EU) 596/2014 ("MAR") and is disclosed in accordance with the Company's obliga&ons under Ar&cle 17 of MAR. The person who arranged for the release of this announcement on behalf of Staffline Group plc was Michael Watts, Group Chief Financial Officer.

Note for Editors

About Staffline - Recruitment, Training and Support

Enabling the Future of Work™

Staffline is the UK's market leading Recruitment and Training group. It has two divisions:

Recruitment Division

The UK's leading provider of flexible blue-collar workers, supplying over 60,000 staff per day to c. 1,500 private sector clients, across a wide range of industries including agriculture, drinks, driving, food processing, logis&cs and manufacturing. It operates from over 400 locations in UK, Eire and Poland.

Its world leading Customer Experience plaIorm provides op&mised customer-based staffing management solu&onswhilst providing market-leading levels of job satisfaction for workers.

PeoplePlus Division

The leading adult skills and training provider in the UK, delivering appren&ceships, adult educa&on, prison educa&on and skills-based employability programmes across the country.

Education and Training - market leading provider of training courses for private sector Appren&ceships (both Levy and non-Levy) and Government funded Adult Skills programmes.

Employability - top quar&le performer, suppor&ng Government programmes providing back-to-work educa&on and support services to the unemployed.

Jus ce and Community - educa&on and training services for prisoners and ex-offenders, as well as individual support services for carers and people with disabilities, both at home and in the work place.

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