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Meridian partners Drummond Kerr, Jon Croxford and Philip Harrison
A record way to end
a decade in business Solihull-based private client law firm Meridian Private Client LLP has celebrated its tenth anniversary with the announcement of record annual fee income for the year ended 30 September 2015. Revenues were £1.27m, up from £1.0m in the previous year Meridian Private Client was founded in 2005
to provide specialist advice on estate planning and long-term tax planning to individuals and entrepreneurs. Meridian also advises internationally mobile clients currently living in the UK or with significant connections here.
college students with businesses in order to gain work experience. Among those who have found work experience beneficial is IT student Hassan Ali, who was taken on by High Street electronics store Maplin. After his work experience ended, he stayed on at the firm after landing a part-time job, to fit around his college course. Store manager Edd Summers said: “We believe
The value of experience S
olihull Chamber has joined forces with Solihull College to help local businesses find their future workforces, by placing
it’s important to support young people. With us, students gain experience of customer service and using the store’s in-house systems, plus they get to learn all about what we sell – particularly relevant to a computing student like Hassan. He’s taken everything in his stride and has already become a great addition to the team.” Solihull Chamber director Joan Smith said: “We are based at Solihull College and so work very
Work experience: Hassan Ali (centre) with Maplin colleagues
closely with the staff in all areas around training, apprenticeships and work experience for students. “Businesses have engaged with students to discover all sorts of unexpected benefits including
lowered recruitment costs and improved management skills in staff. We have already placed over 50 students with our members on various projects. The placements are tailored to suit a business and gives them a chance to find potential future apprentices or employees.”
Businesses interested in finding out more should contact Solihull chamber on 0121 678 7488.
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missing from care, there are concerns with who she is spending time with and her alcohol addiction, we are worried about sexual exploitation. Obviously we search an area, but we also check phone and internet records (all which needs to be authorised by senior officers ensuring that infringements on privacy are justified). We would make referrals to Solihull’s new multi-agency safeguarding hub with social workers, nurses and police and when we find her, we try and understand what has happened. Or this? There is a vulnerable
elderly adult in a house we know about – we have concerns about relatives financially abusing him and rogue traders in the area – what can we do to prevent him being harmed? The policing role has developed substantially in the last 20 years.
MAKING
BY ALEX MURRAY CHIEF SUPERINTENDENT, SOLIHULL POLICE
We still arrest thieves and split up fights, but rightly we have become much more aware and much more responsible for preventing harm that is out of the public gaze. It is for this reason that our Public Protection Unit now has over 800 staff. We have to constantly assess risk which then dictates how much resource should go into prevention and risk assessment, as anyone knows, is really difficult – and an area which hindsight sometimes judges unfairly. Because of this we must justify and explain what action we are taking at all times. Robert Peel stated that the
success of the police should be judged not on the detection of crime but its prevention and as we focus on hidden crime this sometimes means that what police officers do is hidden. Naturally the public care about what we see in front of them, but police resourcing is about allocating valuable officer time accordingly. So if you see less officers, it is
not because they have gone away it is because they are putting the oil where the squeak is. They are focusing on harm. Being a police officer or member of police staff is now a real challenge but one that we relish, and although we often get it wrong, we rely on and value your support more than ever.
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