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Serco prison struggles to recruit staff
The Centre's Director is quoted in today's Financial Times, commenting on the recruitment crisis at London's flagship private prison, HMP Thameside.
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Satellite tagging plans throwing good money after bad
The Centre's director, Richard Garside, said today that the Ministry of Justice should halt plans to commission off-the-shelve satellite tagging technology.
His comments follow yesterday's announcement that the Ministry was...
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Serco paid £1.1 million for running empty children's prison
The Ministry of Justice paid Serco £1.1 million for running a secure children's unit after it was closed and the remaining children had either been transferred or released,...
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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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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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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 may still be prosecuted
Troubled security company G4S may still face criminal prosecution over its alleged overcharging on electronic monitoring and prisoner escort contracts, The...
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Serco London Probation contract to end this year
In a further sign that the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) is clearing the decks ahead of the planned probation privatisation, it has announced that Serco's Community Payback contract in London will stop by the end of this year.
The announcement was smuggled into a footnote in an MoJ press...
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Lie detector tests won't be privatised
Plans to hand over the running of lie-detector tests for some individuals convicted of sexual offences to the private sector have been abandoned,...
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'Best in the business' bidding for probation work
The Ministry of Justice has announced that 30 bidders have passed the first stage of a competition to win regional probation service contracts.
Bids come from a range of private firms, charities, British and multinational business. The contracts will for the first time require every...