The end of outsourcing government jobs, from cleaners to security, is just one progressive idea set in motion in this pivotal byelection week
In the quiet pause before the storm of the Makerfield result drops, good news has passed unnoticed. “The age of outsourcing is over,” declares the Cabinet Office. There will be “the biggest wave of insourcing of public services for a generation” Rachel Reeves says. Finally, here it comes: every government department promises to bring cleaners, security and others of all kinds back as public employees when current contracts expire.
“New approach to procurement signals ambition to end the era of outsourcing by default,” goes the government press release. Shares in the big state contractors Serco, Capita, and Mitie fell on Wednesday after the news.
Polly Toynbee is a Guardian columnist
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The end of outsourcing government jobs, from cleaners to security, is just one progressive idea set in motion in this pivotal byelection weekIn the quiet pause before the storm of the Makerfield result drops, good new...
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