(FROM SOURCE): The government is planning to allow outsourcing firms to bid for contracts to manage social services for vulnerable children in England – while dropping laws allowing the removal of companies that fail to do the job properly. A number of firms have expressed an interest in proposals that would allow them to bid for contracts managing foster care and providing other services for children in care. But Labour says the plans would take away legal provisions that allow councils to remove a firm that has failed to meet national minimum standards. They would also relax the rules governing independent inspections of services that place and monitor children who are looked after by the state. Concerns have emerged after two of the biggest outsourcing companies in Britain, Serco and G4S, were found to have overbilled the taxpayer by charging to tag offenders who were dead or in prison. m.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/jul/18/social-services-children-privatised-labour
Posted on: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 17:50:06 +0000
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