Local authorities are under pressure to contract out services,but a fresh campaign wants a public moral to recall providers who achieve a noxious jobUnder the previous, coalition government, or local authority outsourcing of services doubled. The value of local government contracts keeps increasing and contract periods keep getting longer. Meanwhile,as a consequence of the coalition government’s Open Public Services reform programme, councils are under pressure to outsource, and while deep cuts force them to consider it a way of cutting costs.
None of this is popular with the public. In polling commissioned by campaign group We Own It,61% of the population thinks that local and central government should run services in-house as the default. Only 21% want to see more outsourcing.
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Source: theguardian.com