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TRANSNATIONALS will still be able to cream a profit from children’s services in spite of supposed safeguards, GMB Congress heard yesterday.
A motion unanimously passed by the conference denounced the “wholesale privatisation of children’s services” and warned that it would result in “exploitation for financial gain.”
Delegates said that, after uproar over initial plans to allow for-profit companies to apply to run care services, ministers had promised that only charities would qualify.
In the second part of her critique of Wes Streeting’s TenYear Plan for Health, HELEN MERCER looks at the central planks of this privatisation blueprint
Our members face serious violence, crumbling workplaces and exposure to dangerous drugs — it is outrageous we still cannot legally use our industrial muscle to fight back and defend ourselves, writes STEVE GILLAN
