TheIndepedent – Revealed : The Great Outsourcing Scandal As Firms Çut Corners’ To Cream Profits Off Public – 18 July 2013

Private firms ‘gaming’ £100bn of government services, says think-tank

Private companies providing public services are routinely “gaming the system” to make money for their shareholders at the expense of the taxpayer, a major new study finds today.

An analysis of the Government’s controversial £100bn “outsourcing” programmes, such as its scheme to help the unemployed back into work, found private firms “creaming off” easy cases where they could make profits while “parking” problematic ones.

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