An investigation into the transfer of 10 residential care homes by Essex County Council to Excelcare Holdings PLC.

The Department of Health has rejected a KPMG options appraisal in favour of a ESSU appraisal prepared for UNISON Northern, thus saving 2,500 jobs.

Assesses Oldham’s planned Strategic Service Delivery Partnership and shows that the project falls well short of the targets and claims made for community cohesion, regeneration and job creation.

In 2006 visitors to the ESSU web site examined 137,791 pages and downloaded 35,332 .pdf files and 4,380 .doc files, a total of 8.652 gigabites.

A paper setting out a four part typology of privatisation and marketisation. The typology provides examples and explanation of the different types of privatisation and marketisation; methods; political, social and economic objectives; and the impact on the state and public services.

The European Services Strategy Unit has devised an Employment Risk Matrix which assesses the degree of changes in four categories of risk.

In June 2006 North Tyneside Council published an edited version of a Business Transformation Plan prepared by management consultants KPMG in conjunction with Council officers. Local government trade unions in North Tyneside (including teacher unions) commissioned this report from the European Services Strategy Unit to assess the Council’s transformation plan and to provide an evidence…

Yorkshire & Humber Regional Centre of Excellence: Shared Services Seminar

Financing Infrastructure in the 21st Century: The Long Term Impact of Public Private Partnerships in Britain and Australia

Analysis of Strategic Services Partnership proposals for Southampton City UNISON