One of the UK’s biggest providers of probation services has collapsed. Working links, an employment and probation services company entered administration on 15 February. The outsourcing company had been severely criticised by inspectors. The Chief […]
Serious crime committed by offenders on parole increased by 50 per cent following the Government’s reforms to the probation service. The official data for England and Wales refers to Further Serious Offence reviews (SFOs). An […]
Almost one quarter of public sector contracts awarded in 2018 went to sole bidders. The Financial Times reports that the number of contracts awarded without competitive tender rose to 23 per cent in 2018. In 2016, […]
Highlighting findings from the Royal College of Radiologists, ‘Clinical Radiology UK Workforce Census 2017 Report’, a recent BMJ news article calls attention to the rising expenditure by the NHS on outsourced radiology patient scans. With […]
The rise of Carillion alongside the UK government’s promotion of private finance initiatives from the early 2000’s may have largely been heralded as a success until Carillion’s unprecedented demise early on this year. As Rebecca […]
Many issues cross the political divide, the issue of outsourcing and privatization certainly being one of them. With growing criticism of private finance initiatives after events like the collapse of Carillion earlier this year, it […]
The government has announced that another of its flagship policies on outsourcing have come unstuck. Privatising the probation service always looked like a privatisation too far. And now even the Conservative Government agrees. This is […]
Capita profits surge bolstered by UK government outsourcing Capita profits surge bolstered by UK government outsourcing Gill Plimmer writes that: Capita reported a 16 per cent surge in interim pre-tax profits to £238m bolstered by a […]
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