#Serco

Felicity Reynolds

#Serco - a thread. Since finding out that Serco not only runs detention centres & prisons, but also call centres for Australian Govt services, such as Centrelink, NDIS and the

Clive Wismayer 🇪🇺🇳🇱 🥪

In a stunning new development Matt Hancock announces a massive extension to the testing programme. Tests will be carried out by each household on the neighbours living to their right.

THREAD on my alarming week looking at tracing.In public, local leaders continue to push for a bigger role.In private, hot anger over the national tracing system. An “intergalactic catastrophe... the

Some economic comparisons:A failing #Brexit has so far cost us the equivalent of the total of every payment we've made, ever, to the EU, since we joined. Some economic comparisons:

Australia is not free of the prison industrial complex, not least because it operates on an international scale.Here's an example.Meet the "Clarence Correctional Centre" currently under construction near Grafton. This

To find out what lockdown tier your region is in, simply cross-reference your postcode with the colour coded constituency maps available to download from your local post office's FB page.

Not reported in the headlines: Sunak’s budget yesterday announced spending *£10 billion* on the track and trace system.Let that sink in for a second…https://hmtreasury-newsroom.prgloo.com/news/summer-economic-update-a-plan-for-jobs 1/n

berniespofforth

1/ Let's talk about SERCO - a thread.Chief Exec is Rupert Soames, he’s the brother of Nicholas Soames. Which is handy for networking through the government. 2/ SERCO is the

Serco: £108m. Pestfix: £108m Clandeboye: £108m Seaborne Ferries: £108m.

Michael Govern Ready

Goveller’s TravelsThursday 22nd October The enormous Tories of Brobdingnag, hearing my wistful tails of British profligacy, took all occasions to divert me with descriptions of their own, such as spaffing

That £12 billion of government money for Test and Trace, funnelled through private companies and more or less entirely wasted, is bigger than the whole General Practice budget for England.

1/ This is an important point picked up by @natashloder from last night's press conference about Van Tam limiting ambitions on daily cases. This should worry us a lot, and

Fionna O'Leary, 🕯🇪🇺

Race to track 200 people on flight after officials fail to tell airline of Covid cases8 teenagers returning from Crete tested positive in the U.K.You would think Serco would be

Josephine Langbien

The Commonwealth Ombudsman, who monitors Home Affairs' management of immigration detention, has today published a damning report highlighting serious issues including (again) excessive use of force by security contractors against

A few things are getting clearer about #Covid19 in #ukhighered - there are now many cases as @ucu predicted (esp in halls of residence), there is some more private university

Fionna O'Leary, 🕯🇪🇺

How teenagers ended up operating crucial parts of England’s T & T systemWhile the job is officially advertised at between £16.97 and £27.15 per hour, they are all being paid