The Financial Times reports on the findings of the Ofsted Report, which concluded that the public funded yet privately owned Learndirect is systematically failing to provide the vital job training and career planning services that it is contracted to provide.
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A February 2018 study by the Centre for Health and the Public Interest has revealed that PFI firms will earn £4.8bn from schools by 2020, reports the Guardian. This diversion of taxpayer money to private […]
Following the collapse of Carillion, the Guardian produced an illuminating list of the contracts the firm holds with the government. From managing NHS operating theatres to major rail projects to maintenance and other services at schools and […]
The Guardian and the Daily Mirror have run stories on the amounts paid to ATOS and Capita by the DWP to run their “fitness to work” test. Both companies have been heavily criticised for the way they have run the […]
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