A recent article on Publicservice.co.uk reports on caution urged over public sector outsourcing:
"Outsourcing might not always be the best option for the public sector, but retaining in-house services in areas like IT can allow authorities to be more responsive, the head of the Local Government Association has warned.
Speaking to the Financial Times, Sir Merrick Cockell called into question the belief that local authorities should be looking to "outsource everything".
There were some services better performed by the private sector, but the quality of other services run by councils with the "tightest budgets" had been "underestimated"..."
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