With councils from Barnet to Preston suffering the consequences of outsourcing, the government must acknowledge it is not fit for purposeThe crisis at Capita will today be treated like a business story – albeit a huge one, with a big company shooting up distress flares and launching an urgent £700m whip-round. But this story is far larger than that. It holds up a mirror to how the British state is now locked in a sick codependency with outsourcing companies whose very business model drives them both into financial precariousness and service failure.The first episode of this story aired in January, when Carillion collapsed. Capita, however, is on a different scale. It employs almost twice the number of people as Carillion did, and it does everything from collect the BBC licence fee to recruit soldiers for the British army. Name the public-sector opening and chances are that Capita has its fingers jammed deep inside. Continue reading…
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