en English Public Private Partnerships: Confidential ‘Research’, A Critique of the Audit Commission’s study of Strategic Service-delivery Partnerships by Dexter Whitfield European Services Strategy Unit : Publications : 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 A highly critical assessment of the Audit Commission’s recent report, For Better, For Worse, on Strategic Service-delivery Partnerships. It finds ten fundamental flaws ranging from inadequate methodology, no evidence base, employment issues ignored, no audit of private sector investment and no comparison of an alternative in-house approach. The Commission’s claim that the information on which its findings are based is “commercially confidential” makes a mockery of transparency, performance management, democratic accountability and community engagement. The second section of the report uses quotes from the Audit Commission report to highlight the shortcomings in more detail. Dexter Whitfield, mail@centre-public.org.uk European Services Strategy Unit, Duagh, Camp, Tralee, County Kerry, Ireland. SP PPP Strategic Service-delivery Partnership public private partnership outsourcing procurement ICT managed services companies employment model value for money commercial confidentiality regional business centre public sector capability democratic accountability public sector comparator contract management ESSU Reports and Briefings 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 2008-01-30T09:49:58Z Created 2008-01-30T09:50:03Z Modified