en English Birmingham Residents Action Group for the Elderly European Services Strategy Unit : Outsourcing and PPP Library : Transfers and Externalisation :Birmingham Residents Action Group for the Elderly This report was written in response to the proposed transfer of Birmingham City Council’s residential care homes into the hands of an independent trust, and contains a detailed analysis of the issues arising when such public services are transferred to independent trusts. The report contains market analysis of the conditions in which independent trusts must operate, and examines previous examples of such ventures in order to demonstrate the fundamental flaws and long-term economic insecurity of the trust option, and provides an evaluation of the options for in-house provision of such services. Commissioned by UNISON Birmingham Branch for Residents Action Group for the Elderly (RAGE) June 2000. Dexter Whitfield European Services Strategy Unit, Duagh, Camp, Tralee, County Kerry, Ireland. residential care home care Birmingham in-house service quality of care savings value for money local economy service users options appraisal care packages strategic vision elderly care market resource centres council provision home closures Community OrganisationsGovernment BodiesTrade Unions Transfers and Externalisation XHTML™ 1.0 The Extensible HyperText Markup Language (Second Edition) Level Double-A Conformance to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 Cascading Style Sheets, level 2 Copyright © 1998-2008 European Services Strategy Unit text/html HTML 2008-03-29T12:39:49Z Created 2008-03-29T12:39:54Z Modified