Public Services Archive
HCA: Promoting US style for-profit healthcare in the UK
In February 2022, cleaners at London Bridge Hospital launched a new
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14 Apr 2022
“You despicable beasts”: Dignity Funerals and commodified death in the spotlight
by Samantha Fletcher and William McGowan In late March 2020, Dignity
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10 Jun 2020
Water bosses’ pay 2018
Another year, another round of bumper payouts for water bosses. The
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18 Jun 2019
The Priory Group: ‘morally bankrupt’ company makes millions for owners while young people die in its care
Last month, Priory Healthcare was fined £300,000 after 14 year-old Amy
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11 May 2019
Who owns your water and how they’ll try to keep it
If water privatisation is ended, one group in particular is going
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18 Dec 2018
Foster Care Associates sold to private equity firm CapVest Partners
One of the UK’s biggest private foster care companies is being
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07 Nov 2018
Water company shareholders make £6.5 billion in five years
Water company shareholders made £6.5 billion in the five year period
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25 Jul 2018
G4S: company profile 2018
G4S is one of the world’s biggest security companies, active in
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28 Jun 2018
Serco: company profile 2018
Serco is an outsourcing company that specialises in public sector work.
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28 Jun 2018
Water bosses’ huge pay packets: analysis
An investigation by Corporate Watch and the GMB union released earlier
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07 Jun 2018
Government allowed Carillion staff to work in prisons without mandatory suicide prevention training
Newly-released documents from an inquest into the tragic death of a
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09 Feb 2018
South West Water: pollution, floods and profits
South West Water charges the people of Devon and Cornwall some
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14 Nov 2017
Southern Rail: ‘depressing, exhausting and frustrating’
As another strike begins, problems on the Southern Rail route continue.
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24 Oct 2017
Short, badly paid and late: home care in England and Wales
CM2000 Care Management, one of the call monitoring systems used by
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18 Sep 2017