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2016
- 'Why have councils fallen out of love with outsourcing vital services'
- Flawed PFI schools cost Edinburgh £100m too much
- Maintaining market principles: Government auditors, PPP equity sales and hegemony: Public sector reforms, public private partnerships and whole government accounting
- PFI schools built in Scotland owned by offshore firms
- Salford Star exposes massive PFI profits at Salford Royal Hospital
- SERCO pays £4m after contract terminated
- Statement to Somerset County Council on outsourcing Learning Disabilities Service
- 新卫生和社会照料经济：来自英格兰西北地区的 报告
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2015
- The Private Finance Initiative: nationalise the Special Purpose Vehicles and end profiteering from public assets
- Somerset CC terminates contract with IBM
- Capitalist Dynamics Reconfiguring the State: Alternatives to privatising public services, by Dexter Whitfield
- The New Health and Social Care Economy
- A Decade of Downloads
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2014
- Inquiry into the Future of Voluntary Services: The Ideological Context, Paper No. 4 - Dexter Whitfield
- London Fire Brigade’s Protective Equipment Group retained in-house
- UK outsourcing expands despite high contract failure rates
- UK outsourcing expands despite high failure rates – PPP Strategic Partnerships Database 2012-2013, Dexter Whitfield
- Unmasking Austerity: Opposition and Alternatives in Europe and North America, by Dexter Whitfield, Spokesman Books (eBook)
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2013
- Climate Finance and markets - a unique toolkit, course, reader, glossary, videos and resources
- EU Reform of transnational Posted Workers law and the place of working rights and collective agreements within the Single European Market: European Public Services Briefings 5: by Andrew Morton
- Fingers in the PFI
- Should we turn the NHS into co-ops and mutuals?
- The Crisis in Adult Social Care
- The Future of European Welfare States
- The Way Out of Financial Crisis
- UNMASKING AUSTERITY: Lessons for Australia, by Dexter Whitfield
- UNMASKING AUSTERITY: Lessons for Australia, Dexter Whitfield
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2012
- PPP Wealth Machine: UK and Global trends in trading project ownership: ESSU Research Report No 6
- 英国社会服务：私有化的转变 UK Social Services: the mutation of privatisation, Dexter Whitfield
- Why a ‘thin client’ is a bad policy
- Failures, delays and soaring cost of Barnet Council’s Street Lighting PFI contract
- Beware the UK’s 'community rights': the latest mutation of privatisation, Open Democracy
- New review of In Place of Austerity: Reconstruction of the economy, state and public services, Dexter Whitfield
- The Mutation of Privatisation published
- European Public Services Briefing 4: European Union Public Procurement Law, the public sector and Public Service Provision, Andy Morton
- The Mutation of Privatisation: A critical assessment of new community and individual rights, European Services Strategy Unit - Research Report No. 5, Dexter Whitfield
- Public Pain: The insidious destruction of public services, Dexter Whitfield
- Outsourcing of London Fire Control Centre reversed
- Commissioning Council plan exposed
- PPP/PFI Profits
- The payments-by-result road to marketisation, Dexter Whitfield
- Recent events
- Barnet’s high-risk strategy for customer and support services
- Plan B and Beyond
- Transfer of Housing Service to Barnet Homes
- Local Authority Trading Company (LATC) for Adult and Housing Services
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2011
- New edition of PPP Database on Strategic Partnerships
- Compelling Evidence Against a Strategic Partnership
- IN PLACE OF AUSTERITY: Reconstructing the economy, state and public services by Dexter Whitfield
- Barnet seeks to terminate Greenwich Leisure Ltd contract
- Privatisation of London’s Fire Service Training and Control Centre
- Select Committees recommend sharing PFI equity profits and criticise use of tax havens
- 社会服务现代化 - Modernising Social Services? Evidence from the Frontline
- Social Policy Association Award for Outstanding Contribution from a Non-Academic
- Analysis of Business Case for £600m-£750m New Support & Customer Services Project: London Borough of Barnet
- PFI Profits
- Is Commissioning the Way Forward?
- Analysis of Business Case for Local Authority Trading Company
- Savings fail to materialise in Somerset strategic partnership with IBM
- European Public Services Briefing 3: A Single European Market in Healthcare: The impact of European Union policy on national healthcare provision, Andy Morton.
- ESSU launches a new series of European Public Services Briefings.
- Somerset County Council to renegotiate PPP contract with IBM
- Two reports in Barnet Press on sale of PPP shares
- Guardian Public article on ESSU report on PPP equity profits
- The £10bn Sale of Shares in PPP Companies: New source of profits for builders and banks, Dexter Whitfield
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2010
- DEMOCRACY: The Board Game
- One Barnet: The Wrong Approach to Transformation
- New Expanded Edition of PPP Database on Strategic Service-delivery Partnerships
- Easy-Council ‘no frills’ Planning Privatisation report exposed
- eBook version of Global Auction of Public Assets now available
- Revised Employment Risk Matrix
- University of Leeds Economic Impact Study
- Good Practice Transformation Toolkit for Barnet Council's Future Shape
- UNISON Barnet: Future Shape of the Council Programme - Briefing No. 7, The impact and performance of management buyouts, social enterprises and mutual models
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2009
- One Million Climate Jobs NOW!
- Not fit to run the Metro - the sorry tale of Deutsche Bahn
- Barnet’s Future Shape
- Tyne & Wear Metro
- UCU Guides on Challenging the Market
- New 2009 edition of the PPP Database
- Future Shape of the Council: Comments on Phase 2 Cabinet and Interim Reports
- New Labours Attack on Public Services: Modernisation by Marketisation? by Dexter Whitfield
- Strategic Service-delivery Partnerships stopped in Bury
- Successful in-house bid for hospital nursery
- Marketisation of Education
- Updated PPP Database
- CPS Publish New Research on Social Services Modernisation
- Select Committee Support CPS Position on Housing
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2008
- Shaping the future on failed policies
- Economic Impact of Prisons in Rural Areas: A Review of the Issues, Dexter Whitfield
- Failure to Assess Options for Future Shape of the Council
- PPP Database
- PPP Briefing: Strategic Service-delivery Partnerships and Outsourced Shared Services Projects
- Leisure Trusts Briefing
- Policy Context of Regeneration in Newcastle
- Commissioning and Procurement Toolkit for Local Government and Health
- Updated PPP Database
- Financing Infrastructure in the 21st Century: The Long Term Impact of Public Private Partnerships in Britain and Australia by Dexter Whitfield
- Audit Commission's take on SSP's is 'fundamentally flawed'
- Public Sector Research ONLINE launched
- Public Private Partnerships: Confidential ‘Research’, A Critique of the Audit Commission’s study of Strategic Service-delivery Partnerships by Dexter Whitfield
- PPP Database
- Southwest One: Lessons and New Agenda for Public Services in the South West
- Downloads from ESSU website reach new peak
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2007
- Cost Overruns, delays and terminations in 105 outsourced public sector ICT contracts
- Outsourcing of Meals at Home stopped in Newcastle
- Future of ALMOs
- Associate Professor
- Southwest One SSP and Shared Services Project
- Somerset ISiS or Crisis? An Assessment of the proposed Strategic Service-delivery Partnership with IBM
- Financing Infrastructure in the 21st Century: The Long Term Impact of Public Private Partnerships in Britain and Australia by Dexter Whitfield
- Appraisal of Unitary Options in Bedfordshire
- Shared Services in Britain
- ESSU Research Report No 2: Options Appraisal Criteria Matrix by Dexter Whitfield
- Shared Services Strategic Framework
- Unitary Structures Research
- Does Excelcare really?
- Government abandons plans to outsource and offshore NHS Prescription Pricing Division
- Social and Economic Audit: Oldham Strategic Service Delivery Partnership
- 40,000 documents downloaded from ESSU web site in 2006
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2006
- ESSU Research Paper No 1: A Typology of Privatisation and Marketisation by Dexter Whitfield
- Options Appraisal Opposes Outsourcing and Offshoring of Prescription Pricing Division, NHS Business Services Authority
- Revised Employment Risk Matrix
- North Tyneside – A Commissioning Council? Evidence Base for the Alternative Plan
- Yorkshire & Humber Regional Centre of Excellence: Shared Services Seminar
- Financing Infrastructure in the 21st Century
- Analysis of Strategic Services Partnership proposals for Southampton UNISON
- Leisure Trust Failure: Alternative Option for East Hertfordshire District Council
- Aberdeen Futures: Whose Community Planning?
- New BOOK: New Labour's Attack on Public Services
- Caring for People, Not Making Markets
- PFI Journal No 52
- Procurement Toolkit added to Outsourcing and PPP Library
- Newcastle excludes facilities management and ICT from Building Schools for the Future contract
- Aberdeen Futures
- Public Private Partnerships in Ireland
- Secondment of Staff for New Tyne Tunnel
- 2005
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2004
- Swansea City Council ICT
- Building Schools for the Future campaign leaflets
- Strategic Partnership in Crisis
- How to Exclude Support Services from Building Schools for the Future and PFI Projects
- CPS Completes Study for Age Concern
- Disability Rights Commission Appoint CPS
- CPS Commissioned for Criminal Justice Project
- PhD Studentship in Mainstreaming equalities
- CPS to Review Options on Age Equality
- CPS To Develop Blueprint for Strategic Change
- CPS Urge Government to Increase Investment in Council Housing
- Health and Social Care Services Leaflet Launched
- CPS Completes study on Sustainable Development in Health and Social Care
- CPS helps to retain in-house services in Manchester
- 2003
- 2002
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2001
- Strategic Partnerships - National research for UNISON
- Salford Social, Economic and Environmental Audit
- Bradford's outsourcing agenda
- Care Services for the Elderly
- Shedding the Light
- What future for Public Services?
- Frontline Involvement
- Environmental Sustainability and Best Value
- Strategic Partnerships
- Equality Audit
- Public Services or Corporate Welfare
- Outsourcing the Future
- Working Together for Best Value
- 2000
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Publications
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ESSU Research Reports
- The financial commodification of public infrastructure: The growth of offshore PFI/PPP secondary market infrastructure funds
- Chinese translation of social impact bonds critique
- ESSU Research Report No. 7: Alternative to Private Finance of the Welfare State: A global analysis of Social Impact Bond, Pay-for-Success & Development Impact Bond Projects, by Dexter Whitfield
- ESSU Research Report No 6: PPP Wealth Machine: UK and Global trends in trading project ownership, by Dexter Whitfield
- ESSU Research Report No. 5: The Mutation of Privatisation: A critical assessment of new community and individual rights, Dexter Whitfield
- ESSU Research Report No. 4: The £10bn Sale of Shares in PPP Companies: New source of profits for builders and banks, by Dexter Whitfield
- ESSU Research Report No 3: Cost Overruns, Delays and Terminations in 105 Outsourced Public Sector ICT Contracts by Dexter Whitfield.
- ESSU Research Report No 2: Options Appraisal Criteria Matrix by Dexter Whitfield
- ESSU Research Paper No 1: A Typology of Privatisation and Marketisation by Dexter Whitfield
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ESSU Reports and Briefings
- EU Reform of transnational Posted Workers law and the place of working rights and collective agreements within the Single European Market: European Public Services Briefings 5: by Andrew Morton
- European Public Services Briefing 4: European Union Public Procurement Law, the public sector and Public Service Provision, Andy Morton
- European Public Services Briefing 3: A Single European Market in Healthcare: The impact of European Union policy on national healthcare provision, Andy Morton.
- European Public Services Briefing 2: The Impact of European Union Competition Policy on Public Transport Policy and Provision in the UK, Andy Morton
- European Public Services Briefing 1: European Union Competition policy and the Liberalisation of Postal Services, Andy Morton
- Glossary of Terms in public management
- Democratic Governance and the Future of City Regions
- Public Private Partnerships: Confidential ‘Research’, A Critique of the Audit Commission’s study of Strategic Service-delivery Partnerships by Dexter Whitfield
- Shared Services Strategic Framework
- Employment Risk Matrix
- The Case for a Positive Public Duty on Age Equality
- Modernising Social Services: Evidence from the Frontline
- The Case for the 4th Option for Council Housing
- The Investigator's Handbook
- Mortgaging Our Children's Future
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ESSU Reports for public bodies, trade unions and community organisations
- Public Private Partnerships and Private Finance Initiative
- PPP Strategic Partnerships
- Regional and City Economies
- Health and social care
- Education
- Equalities, Impact Assessment and Evaluation
- Employment strategies
- Community Planning and Regeneration
- Privatisation and marketisation
- Transformation and Public Service Reform
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Books and articles by Dexter Whitfield
- Beware the UK’s 'community rights': the latest mutation of privatisation, Open Democracy
- Public Pain: The insidious destruction of public services, Dexter Whitfield
- The payments-by-result road to marketisation, Dexter Whitfield
- Plan B and Beyond
- In Place of Austerity
- Is Commissioning the Way Forward?
- The Dynamics of Public Sector Transformation, Dexter Whitfield
- Global Auction of Public Assets
- Book Review: Confuse and Conceal: The NHS and Independent Sector Treatment Centres
- Marketisation of Legal Services
- Financing Infrastructure in the 21st Century: The Long Term Impact of Public Private Partnerships in Britain and Australia by Dexter Whitfield
- New Labour's Attack on Public Services
- Labour’s illusory reforms, Dexter Whitfield in Democratic Socialist, Summer 2006.
- The Marketisation of Teaching
- PPPs- Where Will We Be By 2010?
- Partnerships, Privatisation and the Public Interest - Public Private Partnerships and the Financing of Infrastructure Development in South Australia
- Public Services or Corporate Welfare - Rethinking the Nation State in the Global Economy by Dexter Whitfield
- The Third Way for Education: privatisation and marketisation, Dexter Whitfield, in FORUM for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, Vol. 42, No 2, Summer 2000, p82 – 85.
- Privatisation and International Restructuring, Dexter Whitfield, in World View 1985, Pluto Press, London, p140 – 149.
- UK Social Services: the mutation of privatisation, Dexter Whitfield
- Fingers in the PFI
- The Future of European Welfare States
- UNMASKING AUSTERITY: Lessons for Australia, by Dexter Whitfield
- The Crisis in Adult Social Care
- Should we turn the NHS into co-ops and mutuals?
- UK outsourcing expands despite high contract failure rates
- Unmasking Austerity
- Fingers in the PFI, Red Pepper, Issue 188, February/March 2013
- Inquiry into the Future of Voluntary Services: The Ideological Context, Paper No. 4 - Dexter Whitfield
- Unmasking austerity and organising for new challenges, Dexter Whitfield
- PAPERBACK EDITION - Unmasking Austerity: Opposition and Alternatives in Europe and North America
- Coal: a privatisation postponed? Capital & Class, Spring 1985, vol. 9, No. 1, pp5-14
- Impact of privatisation and marketisation on municipal services in the UK, Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, May, 2002, 8, pp234-251
- Fines, Failures and Illegal Practices in North America: The Implications for Health Care in Britain, NUPE/SCAT, February 1985.
- Sale of the Century, Marxism Today, October, 1984
- The Global Sell-Off, International Labour Reports, November-December, 1984, p18-19.
- A Political Strategy for Public Services, Critical Social Policy, 1983, 3:102
- The People’s Inquiry into Privatisation in Australia
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Public Service Practice
- A Handbook for Checking Specifications (PSP6)
- Best Value Implementation Handbook (PSP8)
- Equal Opportunities Strategy for Competetive Tendering (PSP2)
- Frontline Involvement
- Management Consultants: A Best Value Handbook (PSP9)
- Monitoring Public Services
- Public Services and Business Plans (PSP5)
- Strategy for Best Value
- Tender Evaluation (PSP1)
- User/Employee Involvement in Best Value, PFI and Partnerships (PSP7)
- Public Sector Research
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Archive of key Centre for Public Services and SCAT reports
- Social & Economic Audit, Royal Hospital Trust, Belfast, September 1993
- Social & Economic Audit, Down Lisburn Trust, Northern Ireland, UNISON, 1995
- Privatisation Audit: Public Cost of Private Contractors, 1985
- Externalisation by Privatisation, 1997
- Externalisation by Privatisation: Trade Union Strategy, 1998
- Public Service Analysis, Issue 1, Spring 1997
- Their Business Your Public Service: Lincolnshire’s Enabling Experience, East Midlands UNISON, researched by Centre for Public Services, April 1993
- The Bradford Experiment: Counting the Cost, Bradford NALGO, researched by Services to Community Action & Trade Unions, March 1990.
- Public Service Action: An Anti-Privatisation Newsletter for the Labour Movement
- Taken to the Cleaners: The Lincolnshire Experience, East Midlands NUPE and NALGO, researched by Services to Community Action & Trade Unions, November 1988
- New Initiatives to Improve & Expand Jobs and Services in Darlington, Shop Stewards Committee and Services to Community Action & Trade Unions, November 1986
- Cashing in on Care, National Union of Public Employees and Services to Community Action & Trade Unions, 1984
- Campaigning for Care in Social Services, 1985
- We are NOT for Sale – Part 2, 1989
- We Are NOT for Sale – Part 1, 1985
- High and Dry: A unique action guide based on successful campaigns by tenants against damp and defects, 1984
- The Great Sales Robbery: the sale of Council Housing, 1976 and 1980 Editions
- Up Against a Brickwall: The dead-end in housing policy, National Union of Public Employees and Services to Community Action & Trade Unions, February, 1978
- Demolishing the Myths: Housing and Jobs in South Tyneside, 1980
- Counting the Cost, 1995
- CCT in the Record, Local government Information Unit, 1994
- Housing Management Compulsory Competitive Tendering in London, 1996
- Homes: New Crisis Looms, 1981
- SCAT Privatisation Briefings on Improving Jobs and Services, 1985
- Project to Defend and Improve Local Authority Services and Jobs, Sheffield City Council, 1985/86
- Cleaning Up, Hawley Group plc, 1985
- Privatisation briefings
- Competition, Cuts and Contractors: Lessons for trade unionists from three flagship London Boroughs, 1992
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ESSU Research Reports
- PPP Databases
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Outsourcing/PPP Library
- Building Schools for the Future
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Contract and Privatisation Failures
- Terminated UK PPP Projects
- UK: 105 public sector ICT contract failures
- 37 Failed Privatisation Projects in Water Supply and Sanitation
- 247 Cancelled and Distressed PPP and Privatisation Projects in Developing Countries
- CANADA: Flawed, Failed, Abandoned: 100 P3s: Canadian and International Evidence
- Savings greater if IT kept in-house
- Strategic Partnership terminated by Bedfordshire County Council
- West Berkshire Council Terminates Strategic Partnership
- Strategic Partnership Significantly Reduced by Redcar & Cleveland Council
- Scope of Strategic Partnership Reduced by Swansea City Council
- IBM savings failure in Department for Transport shared services contract
- Leisure Trust Failure Alternative Option for East Hertfordshire District Council
- Overview of Leisure Trust Performance
- Education: Individual Learning Accounts - failed marketisation of training
- National Air Traffic Control PPP has to be refinanced
- Restructuring of Royal Armouries PPP/PFI project
- Sale and lease-back of government buildings offshored
- Pathways to Work
- British Energy
- London Borough of Southwark – WS Atkins
- Railtrack PLC replaced by Network Rail
- National Express East Coast rail franchise terminated
- Network Rail takes over outsourced rail maintenance
- Connex South East Trains
- Hospital cleaning
- Individual Learning Accounts failed marketisation of training
- Economic Policy and Offshoring
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Employment Impacts
- Employment Risk Matrix
- Secondment of Staff for New Tyne Tunnel
- What Frontline Staff Say about Strategic Service-Delivery Partnerships
- The Employment and Financial Impact of Market Testing in the NHS in Northern Ireland
- Competition, Cuts and Contractors: Lessons for trade unionists from three flagship London Boroughs, 1992
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Equalities and Social Justice Impacts
- The Case for a Positive Public Duty on Age Equality
- Promoting Gender Equality in the Public Sector Karen Escott and Dexter Whitfield, Equal Opportunities Commission, Working Paper Series No 2, 2002.
- The Gender Impact of CCT in Local Government: Summary Report prepared by David Perfect the Equal Opportunities Commission (original report by Centre for Public Services) (1995)
- Ealing Council: Putting Public Services at Risk- The record of the Conservative administration 1990-94
- Privatization of Public Services: What does it Mean for Women? Jane Stinson, Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE)
- Why Privatizing Government Services Would Hurt Women Workers By Annette Bernhardt and Laura Dresser, Institute for Women's Policy Research, Washington DC.
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PPP Strategic Service-delivery Partnerships
- PPP Briefing: Strategic Service-delivery Partnerships and Outsourced Shared Services Projects
- PPP Database
- Public Private Partnerships: Confidential ‘Research’, A Critique of the Audit Commission’s study of Strategic Service-delivery Partnerships by Dexter Whitfield
- Southwest One: Lessons and New Agenda for Public Services in the South West
- Somerset ISiS or Crisis? An Assessment of the proposed Strategic Service-delivery Partnership with IBM
- Social and Economic Audit: Oldham Strategic Service Delivery Partnership
- ITRS Retained In-house - Newcastle City Council
- Strategic Partnership in Crisis - Bedfordshire County Council (Contract Terminated)
- Strategic Service-delivery Partnerships
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Private Finance Initiative and Public Private Partnerships
- The Private Finance Initiative: nationalise the Special Purpose Vehicles and end profiteering from public assets
- Global Auction of Public Assets: Public sector alternatives to the infrastructure market & Public Private Partnerships by Dexter Whitfield
- PPP Wealth Machine: UK and Global trends in trading project ownership: ESSU Research Report No 6
- Fingers in the PFI
- The £10bn Sale of Shares in PPP Companies: New source of profits for builders and banks, Dexter Whitfield
- Economic Impact of Prisons in Rural Areas: A Review of the Issues, Dexter Whitfield
- Book Review: Confuse and Conceal: The NHS and Independent Sector Treatment Centres
- Financing the Infrastructure in the 21st Century: The Long Term Impact of Public Private Partnerships in Britain and Australia by Dexter Whitfield
- The Marketisation of Teaching
- Privatising Justice: The Impact of the Private Finance Initiative in the Criminal Justice System
- PPPs- Where Will We Be By 2010?, Dexter Whitfield
- Partnerships, Privatisation and the Public Interest: Public Private Partnerships and the Financing of Infrastructure Development in South Australia
- Newcastle Street Lighting PFI Project
- Failures, delays and soaring cost of Barnet Council’s Street Lighting PFI contract
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Procurement and Commissioning Best Practice
- Future Shape of the Council: The Flaws in Barnet’s Commissioning and Procurement Policy
- ESSU Research Report No 2: Options Appraisal Criteria Matrix by Dexter Whitfield
- Commissioning and Procurement Toolkit for Local Government and Health
- Management Consultants: A Best Value Handbook
- Monitoring Public Services
- Frontline Involvement: Good practice guidelines on employee and trade union participation in Best Value
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Public Costs and Economic, Social, Health, Environmental, and Sustainable Development Impacts
- North Tyneside – A Commissioning Council? Evidence Base for the Alternative Plan
- Health and Social Care and Sustainable Development in the East of England
- Calculation of the National Costs and Savings of Compulsory Competitive Tendering
- Outsourcing the future: A Social and Economic Audit of Privatisation Proposals in Newcastle
- Contractors Audit: The Price of Winning
- Social & Economic Audit, Down Lisburn Trust, Northern Ireland, UNISON, 1995.
- Social & Economic Audit, Royal Hospital Trust, Belfast, September 1993
- Privatisation Audit: Public Cost of Private Contractors, 1985
- Return to in-house provision/Insourcing
- Sector and Service Specific Studies
- Shared Services
- The Case for Public Services
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Transfers and Externalisation
- Does Excelcare Really?
- Leisure Trust Failure Alternative Option for East Hertfordshire District Council
- Leisure Trusts Briefing
- Leisure and Library Trusts
- From Sports and Leisure Provision to Neighbourhood Management: A Strategy for Sport and Leisure in Newcastle
- The Case for the 4th Option for Council Housing
- Birmingham Residents Action Group for the Elderly
- Care Services for the Elderly: Social and economic impact of transfer
- Alternative Option: Care Services for the Elderly in Birmingham
- City Design – The New Agenda
- Externalisation by Privatisation
- The future of Tameside Care Group
- The Future of Residential Care in Rochdale
- Social and Community Care for Older People in South Tyneside
- Future options: Residential Care Homes for the Elderly in Barnet
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