http://www.european-services-strategy.org.uk/news/2006/ News and Events from the Centre for Public Services from 2006. en Copyright © 1998-2012 European Services Strategy Unit 2003-11-03T16:14:40Z European Services Strategy Unit, Duagh, Camp, Tralee, County Kerry, Ireland. Chris Croome news, 2006 2001-04-13T12:00Z 1 daily http://www.european-services-strategy.org.uk/news/2006/marketisation-typology/ A paper setting out a four part typology of privatisation and marketisation. The typology provides examples and explanation of the different types of privatisation and marketisation; methods; political, social and economic objectives; and the impact on the state and public services. Dexter Whitfield 2006-11-15T17:36:43Z en Copyright © 1998-2012 European Services Strategy Unit Copyright © 1998-2012 European Services Strategy Unit privatisation, marketisation, typology, public services, modernisation, transformation, public sector, global public goods, governance, democracy, public domain, infrastructure, private finance, welfare state, procurement, partnerships, contracts. http://www.european-services-strategy.org.uk/news/2006/nhs-outsourcing/ ESSU was commissioned by UNISON Northern to prepare a detailed report on a PPD/KPMG proposal to outsource and offshore prescription processing. This comprehensive report examines value for money, risk assessment, insourcing trends, public cost analysis and other issues. A decision to outsource was expected in November 2006 but has been postponed indefinetly following intervention by the Health Minister. Dexter Whitfield 2006-11-03T12:28:25Z en Copyright © 1998-2012 European Services Strategy Unit Copyright © 1998-2012 European Services Strategy Unit NHS, outsourcing, offshoring, Business Services Authority, prescriptions, UNISON, options appraisal, value for money, risk assessment, public costs, health, insourcing, http://www.european-services-strategy.org.uk/news/2006/employment-risk/ The European Services Strategy Unit has devised an Employment Risk Matrix which assesses the degree of changes in four categories of risk. Dexter Whitfield 2006-11-03T11:01:22Z en Copyright © 1998-2012 European Services Strategy Unit Copyright © 1998-2012 European Services Strategy Unit employment, risk matrix, transfer, TUPE, secondment, choices model, pension, terms and conditions, trade union representation, http://www.european-services-strategy.org.uk/news/2006/north-tyneside-commissioning/ In June 2006 North Tyneside Council published an edited version of a Business Transformation Plan prepared by management consultants KPMG in conjunction with Council officers. Local government trade unions in North Tyneside (including teacher unions) commissioned this report from the European Services Strategy Unit to assess the Council’s transformation plan and to provide an evidence base to support their opposition to this plan. Dexter Whitfield 2006-09-24T19:57:26Z en Copyright © 1998-2012 European Services Strategy Unit Copyright © 1998-2012 European Services Strategy Unit outsourcing, North Tyneside, school trusts, leisure trusts, efficiency savings, commissioning, transformation, impact assessment, in-house bids, privatisation, savings, insourcing, market testing, http://www.european-services-strategy.org.uk/news/2006/shared-service-york-humb/ Yorkshire & Humber Regional Centre of Excellence: Shared Services Seminar Dexter Whitfield 2006-09-24T10:59:37Z en Copyright © 1998-2012 European Services Strategy Unit Copyright © 1998-2012 European Services Strategy Unit Strategic partnerships, shared services, Regional Centre of Excellence, Yorkshire and Humber, http://www.european-services-strategy.org.uk/news/2006/21c-financing-infrastructure/ Financing Infrastructure in the 21st Century: The Long Term Impact of Public Private Partnerships in Britain and Australia Dexter Whitfield 2006-09-24T10:55:44Z en Copyright © 1998-2012 European Services Strategy Unit Copyright © 1998-2012 European Services Strategy Unit Private Finance Initiative, PFI, Public Private Partnerships, PPPs, Britain, Australia, long-term impact, http://www.european-services-strategy.org.uk/news/2006/southampton-ssp/ Analysis of Strategic Services Partnership proposals for Southampton City UNISON Dexter Whitfield 2006-09-24T10:47:56Z en Copyright © 1998-2012 European Services Strategy Unit Copyright © 1998-2012 European Services Strategy Unit strategic partnership, outsourcing, employment model, Southampton http://www.european-services-strategy.org.uk/news/2006/hdc-leisure-alternatives/ East Hertfordshire’s Leisure Services contract with Enfield Leisure Centres Ltd (Aspire Trust) has a major financial crisis. It is £500,000 in the red in the first year of a five-year contract. Resignations of senior staff and the possible liquidation of the Enfield Trust add to the scale of the crisis – a crisis in the making during the evaluation of the market testing bids in 2005. Dexter Whitfield 2006-09-04T15:54:41Z en Copyright © 1998-2012 European Services Strategy Unit Copyright © 1998-2012 European Services Strategy Unit leisure trust, east herts, leisure management, leisure services, cuts, terms and conditions, savings, TUPE, contractor failure, financial analysis,