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Whitehall can't scrutinise over £20 billion of outsourcing contracts
Two thirds of the £35 billion worth of government contracts held by private companies can't be scrutinised properly by Whitehall, reports The Guardian...
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G4S and Serco still being paid millions for tagging
The Ministry of Justice is continuing to pay controversial security firms G4S and Serco millions of pounds a month for electronic tagging, more than a year after both companies were supposedly banned from delivering such work. The revelation comes following an analysis of Ministry of Justice...
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The ongoing electronic tagging scandal
The revelations in July 2013 that G4S and Serco had been...
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Youth offending teams boycott G4S secure training centre
Youth offending teams (YOTs) are refusing to send young people to Rainsbrook Secure Training Centre following a damning Ofsted inspection report which revealed gross misconduct by staff at the facility, Children and Young People Now ...
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Children should not be kept in prison
In the wake of a damning Ofsted report into G4S-run Rainsbrook Secure Training Centre, letters criticising the use of prison for children have appeared in The Guardian....
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G4S: getting away with fraud, torture, and arbitrary detention?
The chair of the public accounts committee, Margaret Hodge, has lambasted the government for allowing G4S and Serco to bid for outsourcing contracts whilst under investigation by the Serious Fraud Office and the City of London over overcharging for services provided to the Ministry of Justice,...
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Oakwood prison 'on the verge of disaster'
Prisoners are being left unfed, drugs are openly being smoked and the regime is chaotic at G4S-run Oakwood prison, according to a letter by 'a concerned relative' in the June edition of the prisoners newspaper ...
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Barnardo's and G4S, partners in the child detention business
When, in the wake of the coalition’s ‘abolition’ of child detention in 2010, Barnardo’s announced...
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Serco to be investigated over sex assault claim
Private outsourcing company Serco is to be investigated by the House of Commons Home Affairs Committee, The Guardian reports. The investigation comes after the...
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Government opens door to new G4S bids
The Minister for the Cabinet Office, Francis Maude, has announced that the 'corporate renewal plan' embarked on by private security firm G4S 'represents the right direction of travel' to meet...
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The great criminal justice contracts monopoly
'Government spends £187 billion on goods and services with third parties each year, around half of which is estimated to be on contracted out services'. So claims a report by the...
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G4S repays over £100 million to settle tagging dispute
A day after Justice Secretary Chris Grayling said that G4s may still be prosecuted over claims that it overcharged on electronic monitoring contracts, the company has...