With only 510 UK civil servants being transferred to the private sector last year, compared with 1,140 in 2008, there is scepticism among the government and local authorities about outsourcing’s benefits

City council overturns plans to privatise 2,000 jobs, raising concerns for strength of the outsourcing market

Meanwhile, in the financial markets speculation has replaced real investment. This is logical because investing in new technologies in manufacturing or services is a much less safe bet for individual businesses than just getting on one of two gravy trains, the first being public sector outsourcing and the second financial derivatives. Derivatives, for those who

A Conservative-controlled council which looked to be come a "light" organisation and outsource a lot of its duties found it "simply it simply it did not work" according to its leader.

'Criminal' local cuts could be avoided, says Capita chief Paul Pindar, suggesting that savings should instead be made from administration and processing

One of the things to be open to outsourcing: wheelchair services for children Anyone care to have a stab at an argument about why this should be an NHS, directly provided, monopoly?

It seems extraordinary to me, that hot on the heels of conference having, so recently, resoundingly rejected the marketization of the NHS and the concept of outsourcing to “any willing provider” – Nick Clegg and Danny Alexander yet again embrace an approach to delivering public services in the Open Public Services White Paper that flies

Plans are to be drawn up to outsource the auditing of local authorities' accounts to the private sector, ministers confirm.

With the impending ‘outsourcing’ of the Equality and Human Rights Helpline, and the constriction of Legal Aid to all but the most vulnerable, your trades union is soon going to be the last hope you have of getting legal representation in court. Failing that? ‘The man who represents himself in court has a fool for a lawyer’, so the saying goes. Through two cases I will show ...

Private equity and outsourcing groups are likely to bid for NHS Professionals, the state-owned staffing agency, when it is privatised as early as next year