David Cameron’s back-to-work firms want benefits cut more often

Work Programme

  Private firms awarded multimillion-pound contracts to run the Work Programme have advised that there should be many more cases where claimants have their benefits stripped as punishment for failing to seek work. As part of its crackdown on welfare … Continue reading

Serco investigated over claims of ‘unsafe’ out-of-hours GP service

Serco's headquarters in Truro, Cornwall.

A leading private health company, poised to win much of the new wave of NHS outsourcing contracts, is under investigation for allegedly providing an “unsafe” out-of-hours GP service, and over claims that  it manipulated results where it failed to meet … Continue reading