Private Finance Initiative and Public Private Partnerships
- Book Review: Confuse and Conceal: The NHS and Independent Sector Treatment Centres
- The book by Stewart Player and Colin Leys exposes how a succession of New Labour Health Ministers, advisers, senior civil servants and staff recruited from the private sector operated in the Department of Health to restructure the private health care sector with a network of Independent Sector Treatment Centres (ISTCs). Equally important, it chronicles the failure of scrutiny.
- Financing the Infrastructure in the 21st Century: The Long Term Impact of Public Private Partnerships in Britain and Australia by Dexter Whitfield
- A detailed study of the longer-term impact of changes in the design, structure and financing of PPP/PFI projects, external economic and political drivers such as growth of the secondary market and government modernisation policies, and the effect of economic, social and employment change. The report also examines PPP/PFI performance, democratic accountability and transparency, the impact on jobs and concludes with an assessment of alternative public sector investment strategies.
- The Marketisation of Teaching
- The April 2006 issue of the *PFI Journal* contains an article by Dexter Whitfield which examines the potential impact of the Building Schools for the Future programme on education.
- Private Finance Initiative and Public Private Partnerships: What future for public services?
- A detailed analysis of PFI including 25 reasons to oppose PPP/PFI projects and drawing on extracts from Public Services or Corporate Welfare: Rethinking the Nation State in the Global Economy by Dexter Whitfield (Pluto Press, 2001) 37 pages, June 2001.
- PPPs- Where Will We Be By 2010?, Dexter Whitfield
- Public Management and Policy Association Newsletter, No.16, February 2002. This article addresses the absence of any serious public debate on the longer-term consequences of Private Finance Initiatives (PFIs) and Public Private Partnerships (PPPs), outlining the huge problems and uncertainties which seem likely to materialise from such projects.
- Partnerships, Privatisation and the Public Interest: Public Private Partnerships and the Financing of Infrastructure Development in South Australia
- By John Spoehr, Dexter Whitfield and John Quiggin for the Public Service Association of South Australia (2002). Discusses the basics, origins and rationale of PPPs, draws on the lessons from the British and Australian experience (55pp).
- Newcastle Street Lighting PFI Project
- The report questions the basis on which community benefits have been calculated, in particular the reduction in road accidents and crime reduction. It concludes that value for money is not proven because the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) option has been manipulated by the inclusion of over £16m of efficiency savings, PFI savings and risk costs either added to the Public Sector Comparator (PSC) or subtracted from the PFI option. (October 2001)
- Private Finance Initiative: The commodification and marketisation of education, Dexter Whitfield, Education and Social Justice, Vol.1 No.2 Spring 1999
- This article examines the major implications of the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) for education, and the schools section in particular. It demonstrates how the PFI is linked to the marketisation of education, and examines the core elements of the PFI in order to create an understanding of its impact on education. It finishes with a detailed assessment of the longer term implications of PFI.
Other PFI/PPP publications
- Secondment of Staff for New Tyne Tunnel PPP
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The case for seconding the 95 staff employed on the existing Tyne Tunnel rather than transferring them to the operator of the New Tunnel was set in a detailed report for Newcastle UNISON.
2006-11-28 15:39:53 - How to Exclude Soft Services from BSF/PFI Projects
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Building Schools for the Future (BSF) is the government's initiative for renewing secondary schools using the private sector to deliver design, construction, management and operation of schools. This Centre for Public Services briefing offers comprehensive advice to local authorities, trade unions and community groups on how to exclude support services from Building Schools for the Future and Private Finance Initiative projects.
2004-12-08 09:42:13 - Privatising Justice: The Impact of the Private Finance Initiative in the Criminal Justice System
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A comprehensive report into the impact of the Private Finance Initiative in the Criminal Justice System for the Justice Forum (2003).
It maps PFI in the justice system, examines the efficiency and savings myths and the refinancing of PFI projects. The report also examines the impact on employment, accountability, consultation and access to information. It exposes the lack of equity and social justice amd shows how PFI impedes innovation.
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