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Who Really Runs Britain?: The Private Companies Taking Control of Benefits, Prisons, Asylum, Deportation, Security, Social Care and the NHS
Alan White
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Description for Who Really Runs Britain?: The Private Companies Taking Control of Benefits, Prisons, Asylum, Deportation, Security, Social Care and the NHS
Paperback. The first book-length expos of the explosive topic of outsourcing, which has been the subject of news headlines and a Panorama special Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: JP. .
‘Outsourcing’ – when will the horror stories stop coming?
Every year the government gives private companies like G4S, Serco, Capita and ATOS £80 billion of taxpayers’ money to handle some of our most sensitive and important services – but where is their transparency?
Immigration is perhaps the most challenging and divisive issue of our time – so why has our government abdicated responsibility?
As privatisation looms over an NHS in crisis, how do we hold these companies to account?
Now, White speaks to campaigners, Whitehall insiders – and the companies themselves.
Who Really Runs Britain? ... Read more
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Publisher
Oneworld Publications
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781786070661
SKU
V9781786070661
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99-50
About Alan White
Alan White is News Editor at BuzzFeed UK. He has won the Royal Television Society Award for Scoop of the Year and been shortlisted for a British Journalism Award for Investigation of the Year. Prior to joining BuzzFeed his work appeared in the Observer, TLS, Private Eye and the Sunday Express. His series of articles, ‘The Shadow State’, ran on the New ... Read more
Reviews for Who Really Runs Britain?: The Private Companies Taking Control of Benefits, Prisons, Asylum, Deportation, Security, Social Care and the NHS
‘[A] powerful account of the impact of the privatisation of public services…provides a timely and important analysis of this often overlooked feature of public life.’
Evening Standard
‘This is a must read…It punctures the myth that the private sector is better at delivering public service.’
Dame Margaret Hodge MP ‘The takeover of government activity by a cartel ... Read more
Evening Standard
‘This is a must read…It punctures the myth that the private sector is better at delivering public service.’
Dame Margaret Hodge MP ‘The takeover of government activity by a cartel ... Read more