http://www.european-services-strategy.org.uk/outsourcing-library/pfi-ppp/ Detailed evidence of the impact of the Private Finance Initiative and Public Private Partnerships. en Copyright © 1998-2008 European Services Strategy Unit 2005-04-26T11:46:47Z European Services Strategy Unit, Duagh, Camp, Tralee, County Kerry, Ireland. Dexter Whitfield PPP, PFI, secondary markets, outsourcing, support services, soft services, PPP, PFI, affordability, refinancing, democratic accountability, risk, public sector, reconfiguring services, public services, best value, privatisation, value for money, public investment, procurement, facilities management, in-house services, two-tier workforce, public assets, corporate welfare, public goods, transaction costs, public sector comparator, public private partnerships, private finance, private finance initiative, daily 1 2001-04-13T12:00Z http://www.european-services-strategy.org.uk/outsourcing-library/pfi-ppp/economic-impact-of-prisons-in-rural-areas-a-re/ The South Australian State Government is proposing five PPPs for the future development of the State’s correctional facilities by moving men’s and women’s prisons, a youth training centre and a pre-release centre to Murray Bridge. The Public Service Association commissioned the Australian Institute for Social Research (AISR), University of Adelaide, to identify the indirect and/or hidden social/economic costs associated with the relocations. The European Services Strategy Unit literature review focuses on the economic, social and employment impact of locating prisons in rural areas, drawing particularly on US evidence. In October 2008 the South Australian State Government announced that funding for the new prisons will delayed until 2013-14 because of the current economic climate. A preliminary analysis of direct and indirect costs associated with the relocation of prison facilities to the Murray Bridge district by AISR is available at www.cpsu.asn.au/~sa/webnews/Final_Report_30_10_08.pdf Copyright © 1998-2008 European Services Strategy Unit en Dexter Whitfield 2008-12-08T10:23:38Z Prisons, impact assessment, South Australia, rural impact, economic impact, social impact, relocation, PPP, public private partnership, private prisons, rural communities, Copyright © 1998-2008 European Services Strategy Unit http://www.european-services-strategy.org.uk/outsourcing-library/pfi-ppp/book-review-confuse-and-conceal-the-nhs-and-in/ 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. Copyright © 1998-2008 European Services Strategy Unit en Dexter Whitfield 2008-04-17T08:00:23Z ISTC. NHS market, health, New Labour, private healthcare companies, scrutiny, PPP, public private partnrships, Copyright © 1998-2008 European Services Strategy Unit http://www.european-services-strategy.org.uk/outsourcing-library/pfi-ppp/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) Copyright © 1998-2008 European Services Strategy Unit en Dexter Whitfield 2008-03-28T15:11:03Z PFI, PPP, Private Finance Initiative, Public Private Partnerships, street lighting, Newcastle, efficiency savings, affordability, risks, value for money, Public Sector Comparator,, road accidents, crime reduction, Copyright © 1998-2008 European Services Strategy Unit http://www.european-services-strategy.org.uk/outsourcing-library/pfi-ppp/partnerships-privatisation-and-the-public-inte/ 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). Copyright © 1998-2008 European Services Strategy Unit en Dexter Whitfield 2008-03-28T14:57:14Z PFI, Private Finance Initiative, Public Private Partnerships, PPP, SSP, Strategic Service-delivery Partnerships, governance, democratic accountability, Australia, Dexter Whitfield, public sector investment, infrastructure, Copyright © 1998-2008 European Services Strategy Unit http://www.european-services-strategy.org.uk/outsourcing-library/pfi-ppp/ppps-where-will-we-be-by-2010-dexter-whitfiel/ 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. Copyright © 1998-2008 European Services Strategy Unit en Dexter Whitfield 2008-03-28T14:46:59Z PFI, PPP, Private Finance Initiative, Public Private Partnerships, long-term vision, affordability, value for money, Copyright © 1998-2008 European Services Strategy Unit http://www.european-services-strategy.org.uk/outsourcing-library/pfi-ppp/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. Copyright © 1998-2008 European Services Strategy Unit en Dexter Whitfield 2008-03-28T14:04:32Z PFI, PPP, Private Finance Initiative, public private partnership, Building Schools for the Future, Local Education Partnerships, LEP, outsourcing education services, academies, soft services, schools ICT, public services, commissioning, Newcastle City Council, Copyright © 1998-2008 European Services Strategy Unit http://www.european-services-strategy.org.uk/outsourcing-library/pfi-ppp/financing-infrastructure-21st-century/ 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. Copyright © 1998-2008 European Services Strategy Unit en Adam Moran 2008-03-26T12:14:25Z Financing, Infrastructure, 21st Century, Copyright © 1998-2008 European Services Strategy Unit