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The appearance of four senior executives from Atos, Capita, G4S and Serco before the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee got off to a slow start yesterday. It soon warmed up.
G4S Chief Executive Ashley Almanza made the startling observation that the company had failed to 'tell...
A criminal investigation has been launched by the Independent Police Complaints Commission into eight Surrey police officers and two other staff after the death of Terry Smith, BBC News reports. Mr Smith was...
The State of Children's Rights in England report has accused the Government of overlooking the rights of children in favour of welfare reforms in times of austerity. They commented that the government:
'...justify not only a serious erosion of children's economic and social
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MPs were yesterday given the low down on what nodding, cuffing, skewing and stitching is in the manipulation of police crime stats. They were told how crime figures have been routinely re categorised, downgraded or even ignored in order to meet performance targets.
These manipulations...
Tory peer Lord James of Blackheart has called for a clampdown on 'mooning' after school kids exposed their backsides to him and his wife from a coach.
According to The Mirror...
Our Director Richard Garside reviews the latest report by the National Audit Office on the G4S and Serco electronic monitoring contracts.
In one example of apparent overcharging, Serco invoiced the government for almost five years' worth of monitoring, despite no monitoring equipment...
Former Olympic champion Chris Boardman has called for the banning of lorries in British cities during rush hour after a cyclist was killled by an HGV, becoming the sixth person to die in London in two weeks.
In the past four years 30 cyclists have been killed by lorries in London, and...
Thirty years ago Mr Rivers Pound moved into a specially designed council flat in Earl’s Court, West London. The 55 year old man had been suffering kidney failure since he was 19. Then in April, the Coalition changed everything with the introduction of the bedroom tax which means that the room...
In advance of the appearance of G4S, Serco, Capita and Atos senior executives before the Commons Public Accounts Committee tomorrow, CBI Director General John...
Former prisons minister Crispin Blunt has seen off an attempt to deselect him by his local party, T...
Lord Victor Adebowale, Chief Executive of Turning Point, has called for the practice of using police cells for those experiencing mental health-related illnesses to be brought to an end. In a comment piece for...
The Financial Times published a detailed profile of global security firm G4S late last week.
The authors Andrew Hill and Gill Plimmer point out that G4S' criminal justice contracts, while a small part of its overall business, are disproportionately lucrative:
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