Newcastle City Council Part 1 makes the case for in-house capacity for change management, explaining how services could be reconfigured, how this could be financed and how corporate objectives could be achieved. Part 2 explains BT’s performance – its strategic blunders, outsourcing, cuts and closures (June 2002).

A New Vision for Local Government in Milton Keynes and Northamptonshire for Milton Keynes Council and Northamptonshire County Council UNISON Branches

Includes extracts from Public Services or Corporate Welfare: Rethinking the Nation State in the Global Economy by Dexter Whitfield (Pluto Press, 2001). PPPs – Partnership or Plunder – an interview of Dexter Whitfield by Alex Doherty, New Left Project, March 2010.

The aim of the Private Finance Initiative is to encourage private investment in major public building projects. In the NHS, the PFI is now being used to build 15 new acute hospitals. It seems like a good idea. But money never comes without strings attached. So will the PFI be good medicine for the NHS?

The case against a proposed Strategic Services-delivery Partnership in Middlesbrough.

The lack of a coherent labour movement strategy and the Labour Party’s acceptance of dual provision are discussed. Draws on the lessons from anti-privatisation campaigns and proposes a seven-point strategy. Identifies the various forms of marketization and privatisation and their impact on services users, jobs, democratic accountability and the public cost of competition. Concludes with…

This vision was developed in 2002 is response to radical proposals by Milton Keynes Council and Northamptonshire County Council for a joint strategic partnership for a large range of corporate and support services. The report was in two parts. The first ‘Our Vision’ set out public services and principles, increasing the capacity of local government,…

A political economy of modernisation which examines the impact of the commercialisation, marketisation and privatisation, the transformation in local government and the growth of the enabling model of the state.

Details the Council’s privatisation plans including the education strategic partnership, proposed transfer of the city’s housing stock to local housing companies, private involvement in information and communications technology, asset management joint venture and the wider social and economic impact on some of the most deprived wards in Britain, for Bradford UNISON (32 pages).

A new guide book which explains both the threats and opportunities of best value. The guide explains both the threats and opportunities of Best value. The threats include the pressure for competition and a new outsourcing, externalisation and privatisation agenda replacing CCT; superficial consultation paying lip service to community organisations and employees; and the threat…