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Outsourcing and PPP Library
- Building Schools for the Future
- Advice and technical information regarding Building Schools for the Future programme.
- Contract and Privatisation Failures
- Examples of the failures, defaults and financial penalties incurred in outsourced services.
- Economic Policy and Offshoring
- Analysis of the economic policy implications of procurement, outsourcing and offshoring.
- Employment Impacts
- The effect of outsourcing and the procurement and commissioning process on jobs, terms and conditions.
- Equalities and Social Justice Impacts
- Studies identifying the effect of outsourcing on equaliities groups.
- PPP Strategic Service-delivery Partnerships
- Evidence of the effects of Strategic Service-Delivery Partnerships.
- Private Finance Initiative and Public Private Partnerships
- Detailed evidence of the impact of the Private Finance Initiative and Public Private Partnerships.
- Procurement and Commissioning Best Practice
- Policy guidance and best practice approach to procurement and commissioning.
- Public Costs and Economic, Social, Health, Environmental, and Sustainable Development Impacts
- Evidence of the effects of outsourcing on public finance, assessment of savings claims and identification of other local and regional impacts.
- Sector and Service Specific Studies
- Studies which examine the impact of outsourcing in specific sectors or services such as education, health, ICT and housing.
- Shared Services
- Studies and strategies of public sector shared services projects.
- The Case for Public Sector Provision
- The case for direct or in-house provision of public services.
- Transfers and Externalisation
- Studies examining the case against and evidence of the impact of transferring services and functions to arms length companies, trusts and quangos.
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