Detailed evidence of the impact of the Private Finance Initiative and Public Private Partnerships
Private Finance Initiative and Public Private Partnerships
Published on 26th April 2005. Last updated 29th May 2017.
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Private Finance Initiative and Public Private Partnerships: What future for public services?
A detailed analysis of PFI including 25 reasons to oppose PPP/PFI projects and drawing on extracts from Public Services or Corporate Welfare: Rethinking the Nation State in the Global Economy by Dexter Whitfield (Pluto Press, 2001) 37 pages, June 2001.
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Economic Impact of Prisons in Rural Areas: A Review of the Issues, Dexter Whitfield
The South Australian State Government is proposing five PPPs for the future development of the State’s correctional facilities by moving men’s and women’s prisons, a youth training centre and a pre-release centre to Murray Bridge. The Public Service Association commissioned the Australian Institute for Social Research (AISR), University of Adelaide, to identify the indirect and/or…
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Privatising Justice: The Impact of the Private Finance Initiative in the Criminal Justice System
A comprehensive report into the impact of the Private Finance Initiative in the Criminal Justice System for the Justice Forum (2003). It maps PFI in the justice system, examines the efficiency and savings myths and the refinancing of PFI projects. The report also examines the impact on employment, accountability, consultation and access to information. It…
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Private Finance Initiative: The commodification and marketisation of education, Dexter Whitfield, Education and Social Justice, Vol.1 No.2 Spring 1999
This article examines the major implications of the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) for education, and the schools section in particular. It demonstrates how the PFI is linked to the marketisation of education, and examines the core elements of the PFI in order to create an understanding of its impact on education. It finishes with a…
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Partnerships, Privatisation and the Public Interest: Public Private Partnerships and the Financing of Infrastructure Development in South Australia
By John Spoehr, Dexter Whitfield and John Quiggin for the Public Service Association of South Australia (2002). Discusses the basics, origins and rationale of PPPs, draws on the lessons from the British and Australian experience (55pp).
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PPPs – Where Will We Be By 2010?, Dexter Whitfield
Public Management and Policy Association Newsletter, No.16, February 2002. This article addresses the absence of any serious public debate on the longer-term consequences of Private Finance Initiatives (PFIs) and Public Private Partnerships (PPPs), outlining the huge problems and uncertainties which seem likely to materialise from such projects.
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Book Review: Confuse and Conceal: The NHS and Independent Sector Treatment Centres
The book by Stewart Player and Colin Leys exposes how a succession of New Labour Health Ministers, advisers, senior civil servants and staff recruited from the private sector operated in the Department of Health to restructure the private health care sector with a network of Independent Sector Treatment Centres (ISTCs). Equally important, it chronicles the…