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  • News and events
    • Updated PPP Database
    • CPS Publish New Research on Social Services Modernisation
    • Select Committee Support CPS Position on Housing
    • 2003
      • CPS helps to retain in-house services in Northamptonshire
      • Care Homes Saved in Stoke
      • Mortgaging our Children’s Future
      • Sustainable Development in the NHS
      • Investigators Handbook
    • 2004
      • Swansea City Council ICT
      • Building Schools for the Future campaign leaflets
      • Strategic Partnership in Crisis
      • How to Exclude Support Services from Building Schools for the Future and PFI Projects
      • CPS Completes Study for Age Concern
      • Disability Rights Commission Appoint CPS
      • CPS Commissioned for Criminal Justice Project
      • PhD Studentship in Mainstreaming equalities
      • CPS to Review Options on Age Equality
      • CPS To Develop Blueprint for Strategic Change
      • CPS Urge Government to Increase Investment in Council Housing
      • Health and Social Care Services Leaflet Launched
      • CPS Completes study on Sustainable Development in Health and Social Care
      • CPS helps to retain in-house services in Manchester
    • 2005
      • HBS sacked by Bedfordshire County Council
      • ALMOs - National Housing Survey of Elected Members, Tenant and Trade Union representatives
      • Economic and Social Audit for the North West
      • Democratic Governance and the Future of the City
    • 2006
      • ESSU Research Paper No 1: A Typology of Privatisation and Marketisation by Dexter Whitfield
      • Options Appraisal Opposes Outsourcing and Offshoring of Prescription Pricing Division, NHS Business Services Authority
      • Revised Employment Risk Matrix
      • North Tyneside – A Commissioning Council? Evidence Base for the Alternative Plan
      • Yorkshire & Humber Regional Centre of Excellence: Shared Services Seminar
      • Financing Infrastructure in the 21st Century
      • Analysis of Strategic Services Partnership proposals for Southampton UNISON
      • Leisure Trust Failure: Alternative Option for East Hertfordshire District Council
      • Aberdeen Futures: Whose Community Planning?
      • New BOOK: New Labour's Attack on Public Services
      • Caring for People, Not Making Markets
      • PFI Journal No 52
      • Procurement Toolkit added to Outsourcing and PPP Library
      • Newcastle excludes facilities management and ICT from Building Schools for the Future contract
      • Aberdeen Futures
      • Public Private Partnerships in Ireland
      • Secondment of Staff for New Tyne Tunnel
    • 2007
      • Cost Overruns, delays and terminations in 105 outsourced public sector ICT contracts
      • Outsourcing of Meals at Home stopped in Newcastle
      • Future of ALMOs
      • Associate Professor
      • Southwest One SSP and Shared Services Project
      • Somerset ISiS or Crisis? An Assessment of the proposed Strategic Service-delivery Partnership with IBM
      • Financing Infrastructure in the 21st Century: The Long Term Impact of Public Private Partnerships in Britain and Australia by Dexter Whitfield
      • Appraisal of Unitary Options in Bedfordshire
      • Shared Services in Britain
      • ESSU Research Report No 2: Options Appraisal Criteria Matrix by Dexter Whitfield
      • Shared Services Strategic Framework
      • Unitary Structures Research
      • Does Excelcare really?
      • Government abandons plans to outsource and offshore NHS Prescription Pricing Division
      • Social and Economic Audit: Oldham Strategic Service Delivery Partnership
      • 40,000 documents downloaded from ESSU web site in 2006
    • 2008
      • Updated PPP Database
      • Future Shape of the Council: London Borough of Barnet
      • PPP Briefing: Strategic Service-delivery Partnerships and Outsourced Shared Services Projects
      • Leisure Trusts Briefing
      • Policy Context of Regeneration in Newcastle
      • Commissioning and Procurement Toolkit for Local Government and Health
      • Updated PPP Database
      • Financing Infrastructure in the 21st Century: The Long Term Impact of Public Private Partnerships in Britain and Australia by Dexter Whitfield
      • Audit Commission's take on SSP's is 'fundamentally flawed'
      • Public Sector Research ONLINE launched
      • Public Private Partnerships: Confidential ‘Research’, A Critique of the Audit Commission’s study of Strategic Service-delivery Partnerships by Dexter Whitfield
      • PPP Database
      • Southwest One: Lessons and New Agenda for Public Services in the South West
      • Downloads from ESSU website reach new peak
    • 2002
      • Promoting Gender Equality in the Public Sector
      • Our City is NOT FOR SALE
      • Newcastle ITRS in-house success
      • Milton Keynes / Northamptonshire SSP
      • Privatising Justice
      • Social and Economic Audit
      • Equality Impact Assessment
      • Regeneration in Darlington
      • Regeneration in Brent
    • 2001
      • Strategic Partnerships - National research for UNISON
      • Salford Social, Economic and Environmental Audit
      • Bradford's outsourcing agenda
      • Care Services for the Elderly
      • Shedding the Light
      • What future for Public Services?
      • Frontline Involvement
      • Environmental Sustainability and Best Value
      • Strategic Partnerships
      • Equality Audit
      • Public Services or Corporate Welfare
      • Outsourcing the Future
      • Working Together for Best Value
    • 2000
      • Management Consultants: A Best Value Handbook
      • Critical guide to Best Value
      • Best Value Toolkit
      • NHS Trust: goes for Best Value
      • Birmingham's residential care
  • Publications
    • ESSU Research Reports
      • Cost Overruns, Delays and Terminations in 105 Outsourced Public Sector ICT Contracts by Dexter Whitfield.
      • ESSU Research Paper No 1: A Typology of Privatisation and Marketisation by Dexter Whitfield
      • ESSU Research Report No 2: Options Appraisal Criteria Matrix by Dexter Whitfield
      • ESSU Research Report No 3: Cost Overruns, Delays and Terminations in 105 Outsourced Public Sector ICT Contracts by Dexter Whitfield.
    • ESSU Reports and Briefings
      • Public Private Partnerships: Confidential ‘Research’, A Critique of the Audit Commission’s study of Strategic Service-delivery Partnerships by Dexter Whitfield
      • Shared Services Strategic Framework
      • Employment Risk Matrix
      • The Case for a Positive Public Duty on Age Equality
      • Modernising Social Services
      • The Case for the 4th Option for Council Housing
      • The Investigator's Handbook
      • Mortgaging Our Children's Future
    • ESSU Reports for public bodies, trade unions and community organisations
      • Public Private Partnerships and Private Finance Initiative
        • How to Exclude Soft Services from BSF/PFI Projects
        • No to Privatisation of Newcastle Schools
        • Private Finance Initiative and Public Private Partnerships: What Future for Public Services?
        • Privatising Justice: The Impact of the Private Finance Initiative in the Criminal Justice System
        • Secondment of Staff for New Tyne Tunnel PPP
        • The Private Finance Initiative in the NHS
      • Strategic Service-delivery Partnerships
        • PPP Briefing: Strategic Service-delivery Partnerships and Outsourced Shared Services Projects
        • Public Private Partnerships: Confidential ‘Research’, A Critique of the Audit Commission’s study of Strategic Service-delivery Partnerships by Dexter Whitfield
        • Southwest One: Lessons and New Agenda for Public Services in the South West
        • Somerset ISiS or Crisis? An Assessment of the proposed Strategic Service-delivery Partnership with IBM
        • Oldham Strategic Service Delivery Partnership
        • Social and Economic Audit: Oldham Strategic Service Delivery Partnership
        • The Flawed Options Appraisal and Outline Business Case for a SSP
        • Social, Economic and Environmental Audit of Salford
        • Strategic Partnership in Crisis
        • No Corporate Takeover of Council Services
        • An alternative to Privatisation by Partnership
        • Contract Capital of the North?
      • Regional and City Economies
        • Appraisal of Unitary Options in Bedfordshire
        • Economic and Social Audit of the North West Region
        • Health and Social Care Economy in the North West
        • Our City is NOT FOR SALE
        • Secret Services
        • The Health and Social Care Economy in the North West
        • The North West Relocation Project
      • Health and social care
        • Caring for People, Not Making Markets
        • Does Excelcare really?
        • Good Hope Hospital and the Health Care Market
        • Health and Social Care and Sustainable Development in the East of England
        • The Health and Social Care Economy in the North West
      • Education
        • How to Exclude Support Services from Building Schools for the Future and PFI Projects
      • Equalities, Impact Assessment and Evaluation
        • Promoting Gender Equality in the Public Sector
        • The Case for a Positive Public Duty on Age Equality
      • Employment strategies
        • Working Together for Best Value
      • Community Planning and Regeneration
        • Aberdeen Futures: Whose Community Planning?
        • Policy Context of Housing Regeneration in the West End of Newcastle
      • Privatisation and marketisation
        • Barnet: Shrinking the Council
        • Commissioning and Procurement Toolkit for Local Government and Health
        • East Herts Leisure Trust Failure
        • North Tyneside – A Commissioning Council? Evidence Base for the Alternative Plan
        • Options Appraisal Opposes Outsourcing and Offshoring of Prescription Pricing Division, NHS Business Services Authority
    • Books and articles by Dexter Whitfield
      • Book Review: Confuse and Conceal: The NHS and Independent Sector Treatment Centres
      • Financing Infrastructure in the 21st Century: The Long Term Impact of Public Private Partnerships in Britain and Australia by Dexter Whitfield
      • Marketisation of Legal Services
      • New Labour's Attack on Public Services
      • PPPs- Where Will We Be By 2010?
      • Partnerships, Privatisation and the Public Interest - Public Private Partnerships and the Financing of Infrastructure Development in South Australia
      • Public Services or Corporate Welfare - Rethinking the Nation State in the Global Economy by Dexter Whitfield
      • The Marketisation of Teaching
    • Public Service Practice
      • A Handbook for Checking Specifications (PSP6)
      • Best Value Implementation Handbook (PSP8)
      • Equal Opportunities Strategy for Competetive Tendering (PSP2)
      • Frontline Involvement
      • Management Consultants: A Best Value Handbook (PSP9)
      • Monitoring Public Services (PSP3)
      • Public Services and Business Plans (PSP5)
      • Strategy for Best Value
      • Tender Evaluation (PSP1)
      • User/Employee Involvement in Best Value, PFI and Partnerships (PSP7)
  • Outsourcing and PPP Library
    • Building Schools for the Future
      • BSF Charter
      • BSF – Pathway to Privatisation
      • BSF: Our Schools are Not For Sale: Local Control Threat
      • BSF: Our Schools are Not For Sale: What Price New Schools
      • How to Exclude Support Services from BSF and PFI/PPP Projects
      • The Marketisation of Teaching: PFI Journal No 52 April 2006
    • Contract and Privatisation Failures
      • 105 public sector ICT contract failures
      • Strategic Partnership terminated by Bedfordshire County Council
      • West Berkshire Council Terminates Strategic Partnership
      • Leisure Trust Failure Alternative Option for East Hertfordshire District Council
      • Privatisation failures
    • Economic Policy and Offshoring
      • Options Appraisal Opposes Outsourcing and Offshoring of Prescription Pricing Division, NHS Business Services Authority
      • Trade, Offshoring of Jobs and Structural Adjustment: The Need for a Policy Response
    • Employment Impacts
      • Employment Risk Matrix
      • Secondment of Staff for New Tyne Tunnel
      • What Frontline Staff Say about Strategic Service-Delivery Partnerships
      • The Employment and Financial Impact of Market Testing in the NHS in Northern Ireland
    • Equalities and Social Justice Impacts
      • The Case for a Positive Public Duty on Age Equality
      • Promoting Gender Equality in the Public Sector Karen Escott and Dexter Whitfield, Equal Opportunities Commission, Working Paper Series No 2, 2002.
      • The Gender Impact of CCT in Local Government: Summary Report prepared by David Perfect the Equal Opportunities Commission (original report by Centre for Public Services) (1995)
      • Ealing Council: Putting Public Services at Risk- The record of the Conservative administration 1990-94
      • Privatization of Public Services: What does it Mean for Women? Jane Stinson, Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE)
      • Why Privatizing Government Services Would Hurt Women Workers By Annette Bernhardt and Laura Dresser, Institute for Women's Policy Research, Washington DC.
    • PPP Strategic Service-delivery Partnerships
      • PPP Briefing: Strategic Service-delivery Partnerships and Outsourced Shared Services Projects
      • PPP Database
      • Public Private Partnerships: Confidential ‘Research’, A Critique of the Audit Commission’s study of Strategic Service-delivery Partnerships by Dexter Whitfield
      • Southwest One: Lessons and New Agenda for Public Services in the South West
      • Somerset ISiS or Crisis? An Assessment of the proposed Strategic Service-delivery Partnership with IBM
      • Social and Economic Audit: Oldham Strategic Service Delivery Partnership
      • ITRS Retained In-house - Newcastle City Council
      • Strategic Partnership in Crisis - Bedfordshire County Council
      • Strategic Service-delivery Partnerships
    • Private Finance Initiative and Public Private Partnerships
      • Book Review: Confuse and Conceal: The NHS and Independent Sector Treatment Centres
      • Financing the Infrastructure in the 21st Century: The Long Term Impact of Public Private Partnerships in Britain and Australia by Dexter Whitfield
      • The Marketisation of Teaching
      • PPPs- Where Will We Be By 2010?, Dexter Whitfield
      • Partnerships, Privatisation and the Public Interest: Public Private Partnerships and the Financing of Infrastructure Development in South Australia
      • Newcastle Street Lighting PFI Project
    • Procurement and Commissioning Best Practice
      • ESSU Research Report No 2: Options Appraisal Criteria Matrix by Dexter Whitfield
      • Commissioning and Procurement Toolkit for Local Government and Health
      • Management Consultants: A Best Value Handbook
    • Public Costs and Economic, Social, Health, Environmental, and Sustainable Development Impacts
      • North Tyneside – A Commissioning Council? Evidence Base for the Alternative Plan
      • Health and Social Care and Sustainable Development in the East of England
      • Calculation of the National Costs and Savings of Compulsory Competitive Tendering
      • Outsourcing the future: A Social and Economic Audit of Privatisation Proposals in Newcastle
      • Contractors Audit - Volume One
    • Sector and Service Specific Studies
      • Reinventing Government in Britain- The Performance of Next Step Agencies: Implications for the USA
      • School Meals: Public provision and children’s health
      • Taken to the Cleaners
    • Shared Services
      • Shared Services in Britain
      • Shared Services Strategic Framework
      • Shared Services in Australia
    • The Case for Public Sector Provision
    • Transfers and Externalisation
      • Does Excelcare Really?
      • Leisure Trust Failure Alternative Option for East Hertfordshire District Council
      • Leisure Trusts Briefing
      • Leisure and Library Trusts
      • From Sports and Leisure Provision to Neighbourhood Management: A Strategy for Sport and Leisure in Newcastle
      • The Case for the 4th Option for Council Housing
      • Birmingham Residents Action Group for the Elderly
      • Care Services for the Elderly: Social and economic impact of transfer
      • Alternative Option: Care Services for the Elderly in Birmingham
      • City Design – The New Agenda
      • Externalisation by Privatisation
      • The future of Tameside Care Group
      • The Future of Residential Care in Rochdale
      • Social and Community Care for Older People in South Tyneside
  • PPP Database
  • Public Sector Research ONLINE
    • Part 7: Public Private Partnerships, Strategic Service-delivery Partnerships, Asset Management Partnerships
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