Archive: Privatisation

How ministers left the prison system on its knees... and got away with it
Countless lives have been destroyed by the prison crisis, but no minister is ever held to account.
Opinion Former Articles
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Unite: Police Privatisation 999
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Unite: Praise for police chief for ruling out privatisation
Unite, Britain's biggest union, has welcomed Derbyshire's chief constable Mick Creedon's decision to rule out the privatisation of police services in Derbyshire.
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Unite: Home Affairs committee slams West Midlands and Surrey police privatisation
The Home Affairs committee has backed Unite's concerns over police privatisation
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Unite: Local public sector pay bargaining: a blueprint for privatisation
Unite, Britain's biggest union, has branded Chancellor, George Osborne's plans to introduce local public sector pay bargaining as a "blueprint for privatisation".
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Burst pipes: Why water privatisation failed
If privatisation was supposed to improve efficiency, it went badly wrong.
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Carillion: A story of Britain's fake markets
The truth is that public services can never be run as competitive consumer markets
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Hunt's secret NHS plan opens the door to further privatisation
These plans are being pushed through without public consultation or parliamentary scrutiny
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Lack of government support after prison fails both individuals and society
A new report has revealed disastrous shortcomings in Chris Grayling's privatised probation system
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Comment: Hidden away in the spending review - a plan to sell off Britain's assets
Hidden away in the spending review is a plan to sell off as many of Britain's assets as possible.
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It's official: Private prisons cost taxpayer more than state prisons
The MoJ's own stats show publicly-owned prisons do more with less - but will Michael Gove listen?
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MoJ paid G4S & Serco millions for electronic tagging during fraud investigation
The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) continued to pay millions to G4S and Serco for electronic tagging over a year after the firms were banned from delivering the work, new research has revealed.
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Comment: How Britain's aid budget pays for the privatisation of energy in Nigeria
Our aid cash is helping tilt an already uneven playing field further in favour of the rich, entrenching inequality and corporate power.
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Probation privatisation looks to be as big a disaster as we thought it was
Grayling's reforms could prove dangerous, with initial reports suggesting a breakdown in communication over offender management
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How the cult of the free market sabotaged our public services
The evidence is clear: private firms in public services offer poor value for money. When will we get over our faith in the private sector?
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NHS staff are right to go on strike
They go above and beyond for pitiful wages, while millions are spent on privatisation: NHS staff are right to strike
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The Canadian-EU trade agreement which could act as a Trojan horse for TTIP
An international treaty which could enforce the privatisation of the NHS might be passed through the backdoor
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Rochester reveals a left which lost its voice
The left has allowed itself to be dragged into a right-wing street fight on immigration, as the desperate by-election in Rochester shows people want more
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Pick of the Week: Porn, the law and you
Our top stories of the week, for your reading pleasure
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Grayling forces through probation sell-off despite safety fears
Minister makes it financially ruinous for Labour to reverse the policy
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Officers say public are in danger - so why won't MoJ publish its safety test?
Probation officers warn that the sell-off of the service is putting the public at risk. SO why won't the Ministry of Justice publish its safety tests?
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98% of probation workers have no confidence in Chris Grayling
Survey of probation workers reveals staggering level of distrust in the justice secretary and suggests a dangerous lack of morale in the service
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Week in Review: Scottish dreams of a new England
Could Scottish independence provide a switch-it-off-and-on-again moment for British democracy?
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Grayling's privatisation system comes apart at the seams
Serco-run Doncaster prison condemned by new report, as A4e cancels prison teaching contract to avoid making a loss
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Privatisation at any cost: East Coast Main Line sale forced through
Railway has made £1 billion for taxpayers since it was nationalised.
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Chaos in probation: Staff 'picked out of a hat' for privatised service
Fears of chaos in the government's probation privatisation programme, as it emerges staff are being selected by literally having their names picked out a hat
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Comment: How privatisation killed the 'big society'
Outsourced public services have heaped profits onto large firms but crippled small charities and put users in peril
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'Dead hand at the centre': Balls rules out rail nationalisation
Ed Balls effectively rules out rail nationalisation from the Labour manifesto, just hours after it emerged the party's policy supremo complained of the "profound dead hand at the centre" of the party
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The MoJ doesn't even know who it has contracts with
How can a government pursing a privatisation agenda have so little knowledge of the contracts it's signed?