Publication

  • Critical Analysis of Dorset Councilā€™s Property & Asset Management Strategy

    Dorset Property Services is the in-house multi-professional property consultancy of the former Dorset County Council. In 2019 the Council appointed consultants to consider the options for the future of Property and Asset Management services. Two Committee reports later a draft business case proposes a commissioning and outsourcing strategy with the loss of 63 full time…

    Published on 12th February 2021.

  • The Financialisation, Marketisation and Privatisation of Renewable Energy: Strategies for public ownership

    ESSU Research Report No.12 with the ESSU Global Renewable Energy Secondary Market Transactions Database 2019-2020; Dexter Whitfield Key findings The secondary market provides a mechanism for investors to extract profit at the development or operational stages of renewable energy projects. This process enables utility and petroleum companies to ā€˜shopā€™ around to buy ā€˜ready to buildā€™…

    Published on 12th February 2021.

  • ESSU Research Reports

    Research reports from the European Services Strategy Unit.

    Published on 12th February 2021.

  • Equitable Recovery Strategies: Why public ownership and democratic control must be at the heart of Green and Integrated Public Healthcare Deals

    New strategies for a post-pandemic economy – Markets and deals – Green Deals – Integrated Public Healthcare System Deals – ‘Just transition’ policies, jobs and quality of employment – Financing new economic policies, Green and Healthcare System deals – A new surge of privatisation – Strategic issues Key findingsā€¢ There is a need for new…

    Published on 12th February 2021.

  • Why Barnetā€™s Education and Skills must be an in-house service

    Barnet Council outsourced the Education and Skills services including catering to Mott MacDonald trading as Cambridge Education in 2016. Mott MacDonald then sub-contracted the catering service to ISS. Force Majeure In April 2020 Mott MacDonald informed the London Borough of Barnet that they intended to use the Force Majeure contract clause to withdraw from the…

    Published on 12th February 2021.

  • The future of infrastructure financing: Is there a public alternative to the privatisation of life?

    Institute for Public Policy Research, PROGRESSIVE REVIEW, Spring 2020, Dexter Whitfield There are currently mixed messages in infrastructure finance. The Conservative governmentā€™s 2018 budget announced that no more private finance initiative (PFI) and PF21 projects would be approved: ā€œGovernment will not be seeking a like-for-like replacement for these models. The government is open to exploring…

    Published on 12th February 2021.

  • Presentation on PPPs at Scottish Parliament

    Presentation by Dexter Whitfield, European Services Strategy Unit, to meeting ā€˜Rethinking Private Financing of Scottish Public Projectsā€™ at the Scottish Parliament on 29 January 2020, organised by Jubilee Scotland and chaired by Neil Findlay, MSP. I strongly recommend that the Scottish Parliament, local authorities and public bodies immediately adopt six strategies for public infrastructure projects…

    Published on 12th February 2021.

  • A job like any other? Working in the social sector between transformation of work and the crisis of welfare

    Davide Caslli (University of Milan), Barbara Giullari (University of Bologna) and Dexter Whitfield (Flinders University, Adelaide) in Sociologia del lavoro, 155, 2019. DOI: 10.3280/SL2019-155001 The purpose of the essay, introducing the special issue, is to shed light on the restructuring of social work in the context of more general transformations of work. Social work represents…

    Published on 12th February 2021.

  • Public Alternative to the Privatisation of Life

    The new book Public Alternative to the Privatisation of Life sets out the scale, cost and impact of different forms of privatisation and encompasses public goods and services including the welfare state, the public realm or built environment (and right of assembly), public domain or creative commons, public sphere (collective debate and elimination of economic…

    Published on 12th February 2021.

  • Nationalising Special Purpose Vehicles to end PFI: A discussion of the costs and benefits

    The paper by Dr Helen Mercer and Professor Dexter Whitfield is available via the Public Services International Research Unit, University of Greenwich. Abstract The articleā€™s principal purpose is to provide an initial set of costings relating to the proposal to end PFIs in the UK through nationalising the Special Purpose Vehicles. The article uses book…

    Published on 12th February 2021.