Public Services Archive
New campaign against G4S asylum accommodation Yorkshire
[responsivevoice_button] A new campaign has been started in Yorkshire in opposition
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17 Feb 2012
To pay or not to pay: Asda and Argos choose workfare over work
[responsivevoice_button] The campaign against workfare has claimed some major successes over
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17 Feb 2012
Charitable exploitation: workfare in Barnardo’s
[responsivevoice_button] It’s not only multinationals that are benefiting from the free
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22 Dec 2011
Asylum seekers to be housed by prison guards
[responsivevoice_button] The UK Border Agency has announced that its preferred bidders
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22 Dec 2011
Under the microscope: pathology gets the Serco treatment
[responsivevoice_button] GSTS Pathology, the joint venture between Serco, ‘the biggest company
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09 Nov 2011
Serco accused of negligence and assault in Australia
[responsivevoice_button] Events in Australia over the last month have shown outsourcing
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25 Sep 2011
‘It’s exploitation and it’s repellent’: Retailers, councils and charities benefiting from workfare
[responsivevoice_button] TK Maxx, Wilkinsons, Savers and Matalan have been named as
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25 Sep 2011
Unemployed people ‘bullied’ into unpaid work at Tesco, Primark and other multinationals
[responsivevoice_button] Unemployed people are being sent to work without pay in
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11 Aug 2011
‘I was a volunteer for six months and wasn’t given a job or paid any money’
[responsivevoice_button] “Karina” is 24 years old and lives in East London.
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11 Aug 2011
‘Making profits from the the unemployed is reprehensible’
[responsivevoice_button] Frank, a member of Islington Poverty Action Group, tells Corporate
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11 Aug 2011
The workfare go-betweens
[responsivevoice_button] The coalition government’s Work Programme, launched in early June, replaces
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11 Aug 2011
Serco dismisses self-harm in immigration prisons as ‘bargaining tool’
[responsivevoice_button] Two people have died from suspected heart attacks and a
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11 Aug 2011
The biomedical scientist: Interview with Frank Wood
[responsivevoice_button] Frank Wood is a biomedical scientist at King’s College Hospital
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24 Mar 2011
Cut the crap: The cuts as profit opportunities
[responsivevoice_button] Cut the crap: The cuts as profit opportunities The
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15 Dec 2010