Increasingly governments are looking to private sector actors to invest in infrastructure projects. An emergent mechanism for such investment is the market in PPP equity. This is an aspect of PPPs that has to date had little empirical attention. This paper reports on the size and scope of the market in PPP equity sales within…

A demand to terminate Barnet Council’s  Capita Contracts and Redesign the Council has been made by Barnet UNISON. Barnet Council plans to carry out a review of three options – either to maintain the status quo, return some services in-house or to terminate both the back-office services and regeneration contracts and return to in-house provision.…

The research was commissioned by The Guardian and by The Ferret investigative journalism platform, both of which published articles on the findings and analysis. Extract from the summary of the ESSU report by Dexter Whitfield: Scottish Futures Trust ‘Non-Profit Distributing’ (NPD) and Hub projects have significant structural corporate relationships with offshore tax havens. They account for…

A unique collection of reports and briefings produced by European Services Strategy Unit with Barnet UNISON between 2008-2018 in opposition to Barnet Council’s plan for mass outsourcing. Completion of the plan has finally been thwarted by the in-house retention of four important services. Click on any of the titles to download reports. 2008 Briefing No…

This is a story of how the London Borough of Barnet was stopped from becoming the capital of outsourcing and privatisation with its ‘Future Shape’ ‘easyCouncil’ and ‘One Barnet’ programme. Capita were awarded 2 large multi-service contracts, 3 contracts were awarded to other private contractors and 2 awarded to the Local Authority Trading Company. But…

This is an inspired example of highly successful trade union organising, militant opposition and working with community organisations equally opposed to exploitative urban development in Sydney and other Australian cities in the early 1970s and equally valid today. Australian building worker Jack Mundey played a leading part in starting the ‘Green Bans’ in the 1970s…

The updated ESSU PPP Equity Database records 462 transactions between 1998- 2016 involving the direct sale of equity of 1,003 projects (including those where equity was sold multiple times) at an estimated cost of £10.3bn. The report examines the continued growth of the secondary market and examines the scale of PPP equity transactions between 1998-2016…

英国PFI/PPP:政府并购、财政援助、合同终止和主要问题报告 A Chinese translation of PFI/PPP Buyouts, Bailouts, Terminations and Major Problem Contracts in UK, Dexter Whitfield, has been produced by Prof. Li Bing and published in The Report on Beijing Population and Social Development (2016-2017), pages 166-208, published by the Social Sciences Academic Press (China).

A chapter by Dexter Whitfield in Privates Kapital für soziale Dienste? Wirkungsorientiertes Investment und seine Folgen für die Soziale Arbeit. Hrsg. von Monika Burmester, Emma Dowling & Norbert Wohlfahrt. 2017. Vlll, 180 Seiten. Kt. ISBN 9783834017505, €19.80 Grundlagen der Sozialen Arbeit Band 41, Schneider Verlag Hohengehren. The English version of the chapter can be downloaded. Table of Contents (German).

A detailed analysis prepared for Somerset County UNISON concluded: In the preparation for a Strategic Service-delivery Partnership the County Council has: Failed to establish the business need for the project. Failed to fully examine all the options – management seem intent on achieving a Strategic Service-delivery Partnership irrespective of whether this is the best option…