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Policing / 17 April 2026

17 April 2026

The British outsourcing giant quietly deleted mention of training US immigration agents after killings in Minneapolis intensified scrutiny of its controversial contracts. SOLOMON HUGHES reports

A general view of D Wing on the official opening of Brook Ho

Britain / 18 November 2024

Violence and self-harming soars at notorious Brook House detention site, inspectors warn

18 November 2024

A Serco prison van arriving at the Central Criminal Court, b

Features / 27 September 2024

There’s no reason to trust Serco

27 September 2024

Despite being roundly criticised by Labour shadow ministers when in opposition, the notorious outsourcing company appears to be back in the party fold and expecting further lucrative government contracts, SOLOMON HUGHES reports

Britain / 12 September 2024

Serco workers at Great Western Hospital to strike over pay

12 September 2024

Britain / 22 August 2024

Outsourced health workers back strike action at Swindon NHS trust

22 August 2024

A member of prison staff, November 19, 2018

Britain / 15 March 2024

Kilmarnock prison state-run for first time

15 March 2024

Britain / 18 December 2023

Government steps in to run unsafe Nottinghamshire prison

18 December 2023

A Caledonian Sleeper train at Edinburgh Waverley Station

Britain / 26 June 2023

Caledonian Sleeper service returns to public ownership after almost three decades in private hands

26 June 2023

Demonstrators at a removal centre at Gatwick protest against

Britain / 25 June 2023

Investigation reveals catalogue of racism, excessive force and violence by immigration centre staff

25 June 2023

Britain / 5 June 2023

Serco workers in North Norfolk and Breckland secure double-digit pay rise

5 June 2023

Britain / 2 June 2023

Waste disposal workers in Sandwell to strike for nine days over pay

2 June 2023

Britain / 13 April 2023

Mother and two children go missing from refugee hotel notorious for poor conditions in Stockport

13 April 2023

Features / 16 March 2023

The Restart scheme: ‘parking and creaming’ again?

16 March 2023

SOLOMON HUGHES reports on yet another Covid cash grab that was supposedly designed to help people back to work — but was far better at lining the pockets of the outsourcing giants

Britain / 14 November 2022

Refugee on 12th day of hunger strike in protest against conditions at Serco-run Home Office accommodation

14 November 2022

Britain / 2 November 2022

Refugees forced to live in squalid conditions at Serco-run hotel

2 November 2022

Campaigners outside the Department of Health and Social Care

Features / 14 July 2022

How Serco grew fat on Covid contracts

14 July 2022

By its own admission, through ‘aggressive behaviour,’ the outsourcing company has cashed in on public pandemic services – leaving behind a litany of botched and inadequate provision, says SOLOMON HUGHES

Members of Unite employed by Serco at Barts Health NHS Trust

Britain / 10 December 2021

Hundreds of outsourced workers to strike against low pay and exploitation at Barts NHS Trust

10 December 2021

Britain / 1 December 2021

Caledonian Sleeper workers take pay justice fight to London

1 December 2021

Britain / 16 November 2021

Students demand universities end complicity in border violence through investments in arms firms

16 November 2021

Britain / 3 November 2021

NHS workers employed by Serco to be consulted on industrial action over pay dispute

3 November 2021

Britain / 5 August 2021

Serco profits soar from running test-and-trace scheme, despite claims it would make ‘nothing’ from pandemic

5 August 2021

The outsource giant said its operating profit was up by 31 per cent to £116 million in the six months to June

Britain / 29 July 2021

Analysis reveals ‘millions’ in fees paid to train operators could have funded pay award for striking rail workers

29 July 2021

Britain / 4 July 2021

Refuse workers to ballot for strike action against victimisation and unfair treatment

4 July 2021

Britain / 28 June 2021

Test and Trace: ‘Ineffective and inefficient’ Serco handed £322m contract

28 June 2021

Britain / 21 June 2021

RMT calls on Scottish government to lift its ‘veil of secrecy’ over fees paid to private rail operators

21 June 2021

A campaigner outside the Department of Health and Social Car

Britain / 15 June 2021

Taxpayers’ money has been handed out to line the pockets of big outsourcing companies in return for failure after failure, Labour says

15 June 2021

Britain / 9 June 2021

RMT confirm strike dates for workers on Caledonian Sleeper trains

9 June 2021

The union accused operating company Serco of lying to passengers about the wage dispute

Britain / 28 May 2021

Campaigners demand end to ‘dysfunctional’ Serco test and trace system

28 May 2021

Samples are taken at a coronavirus testing facility in Templ

Britain / 27 May 2021

End Serco's failed test and trace contract, campaigners demand on anniversary

27 May 2021

Britain / 26 April 2021

Health campaigners to protest against possible Serco contract renewal for test-and-trace system

26 April 2021

A Zero Covid rally at Serco HQ in London in December last

Features / 25 April 2021

Scrap Serco’s Test and Trace: Fund public health not private profit

25 April 2021

With Serco’s contact tracing contract ending on May 17, JOAN TWELVES explains why now is the time to apply pressure for it not to be renewed

Britain / 15 April 2021

Serco workers vote to strike over the targeting of union activists

15 April 2021

People wait to get inoculated at a vaccination camp in Kochi

Features / 25 March 2021

The corona warriors of Kerala put Britain’s crooked contract snafflers to shame

25 March 2021

The doorstep health workers of India’s communist state show that it’s human assistance that makes self-isolation possible, not the call centres and crib sheets favoured by the Tories, says SOLOMON HUGHES

Editorial / 24 March 2021

‘Greed is good’ politics does not sit well with a Covid-stricken public

24 March 2021

Britain / 22 March 2021

Serco confirms test-and-trace staff are on precarious ‘super-spreader contracts’

22 March 2021

Editorial / 25 February 2021

Serco’s shareholder dividends expose the rotten reality of broken Britain

25 February 2021

Britain / 25 February 2021

Serco paying out dividends branded an ‘outrage’ after test and trace failure

25 February 2021

A GWR (Great Western Railway) train waits on a platform

Britain / 17 December 2020

Holyrood to review rail franchising following coalition demand to renationalise railways

17 December 2020

Features / 2 December 2020

Let’s put a windfall tax on companies profiting from the Covid-19 crisis

2 December 2020

We need to ensure that this crisis is not paid for on the backs of the working class, argues RICHARD BURGON MP

Britain / 26 November 2020

Privatised Covid test and trace system continues to fail, data shows

26 November 2020

NHS Test and Trace staff set up at the Liverpool Tennis Cent

Britain / 19 November 2020

Test and Trace still only reaching 60 per cent of contacts of positive cases

19 November 2020

Activists at the Department of Health in London protesting o

Features / 21 October 2020

Coronavirus crisis is giving a boost to crony capitalism

21 October 2020

Outsourcing giants like Serco shouldn’t get another penny of public money, says RICHARD BURGON MP

Britain / 16 October 2020

Sack Serco, campaigners urge after the outsourcing giant announces soaring profits from government contracts

16 October 2020

The company expects a trading profit of between £160m and £165m

Editorial: / 11 October 2020

Lockdowns will not suppress Covid-19 while we outsource its suppression

11 October 2020

Britain / 25 September 2020

Get ‘incompetent’ Serco out of Covid tests, say activists

25 September 2020

Britain / 21 September 2020

Covid deaths to reach more than 200 per day as Britain heads in the ‘wrong direction’

21 September 2020

Britain / 16 September 2020

RMT slams Serco's ‘disgraceful’ approach to industrial relations

16 September 2020

Workers vote overwhelmingly for strike action

Britain First leader Paul Golding leaves Westminster Magistr

Britain / 26 August 2020

Britain First's fascist thugs lambasted for Birmingham asylum hotel raid

26 August 2020

Activists in Leeds protest against government plans to hand

Britain / 18 August 2020

Protesters gather across England to demand government gives ‘not a penny more to Serco’

18 August 2020

Editorial: / 17 August 2020

Serco's appalling record should see them banished, not rewarded

17 August 2020

Britain / 17 August 2020

Protesters to gather against government funding to Serco for failed track and trace

17 August 2020

Britain / 20 May 2020

Serco apologies for sharing 296 email addresses of newly recruited contact tracers

20 May 2020

Britain / 4 May 2020

Scandal-hit Serco ‘utterly unfit’ to run Covid-19 contact tracing system

4 May 2020

Britain / 7 April 2020

Serco given go-ahead by Supreme Court to use lock-change evictions on refugees in Glasgow

7 April 2020

Britain / 20 February 2020

‘Disgraced’ outsourcing firm Serco to take over G4S contracts to run two immigration detention centres

20 February 2020

Britain / 20 December 2019

Refuse workers ballot on strike action against Serco

20 December 2019

Britain / 5 December 2019

Scottish politicians hit out at Serco boss over company's attempts to boot hundreds of asylum-seekers from their home

5 December 2019

Britain / 13 November 2019

Court allows Serco to carry out lock-change evictions on asylum-seeker homes

13 November 2019

150 refugees living in Glasgow in properties provided by the Home Office contractor now face homelessness

Britain / 30 September 2019

Rail union calls on Serco to ‘get out of the trenches’ and return to talks as strike continues

30 September 2019

A second board member at the Equality and Human Rights Commi

EHRC Exposed / 13 September 2019

New conflict of interest row at EHRC as second board member joins law firm taking government work

13 September 2019

Britain / 25 August 2019

Serco sponsors Manchester Pride float while evicting refugees in Scotland

25 August 2019

Exclusive: / 13 August 2019

Victory for stressed out Serco workers in sleeper train jobs row

13 August 2019

Workers from the Equality and Human Rights Commission Branch

Editorial: / 22 July 2019

The EHRC investigation into Labour cannot be trusted

22 July 2019

Living Rent activists protest against Serco's evictions of m

EHRC Exposed / 22 July 2019

Part 5: Chairman of ‘impartial’ watchdog probing Labour anti-semitism linked to refugee evictions

22 July 2019

Editorial / 12 July 2019

Editorial: We don’t need parasites like Serco in our lives

12 July 2019

A general view of a Serco prison van leaving Wormwood Scrubs

Britain / 3 July 2019

Serco fined nearly £23 million over electronic tagging scandal

3 July 2019

The humiliating sanctions come as the company is slammed over cooking prisoner to death in a cell

Britain / 14 January 2019

Seven out of 10 Serco-provided homes in Glasgow failed basic standards test last year

14 January 2019

Industrial / 9 May 2018

Outsourced Barts hospital staff protest for pay justice

9 May 2018

Privatisation / 30 April 2018

Unite warns ministers not to sell off firefighting services on military bases

30 April 2018

Activists left rotting food outside Serco's HQ in protest at

Britain / 2 March 2018

Lesbians and Gays Support the Migrants blockade Serco HQ in Yarl's Wood protest

2 March 2018

Scotland / 26 January 2018

RMT to hold ferry nationalisation meeting on Orkney

26 January 2018

Britain / 3 August 2017

London strikers unite against trio of bad bosses

3 August 2017

Britain / 16 July 2017

Labour ‘100% behind strikers’

16 July 2017

Britain / 4 July 2017

Cleaners and porters out for biggest NHS strike this year

4 July 2017

Britain / 3 July 2017

Low-Paid NHS Staff Take on Serco Bullies

3 July 2017

Porters and cleaners at four London hospitals launch strike action today

Features / 26 January 2017

Cagey record? You’re hired to run our prisons

26 January 2017

Instead of admitting to the problems of privatised prisons in light of the embarrassing G4S and Serco scandals, the Tories have now hired a US firm with a similar rap sheet. SOLOMON HUGHES investigates

Britain / 8 September 2016

A brief history of Serco and its revolving door with ministers

8 September 2016

Features / 8 September 2016

Making a mockery of transparency

8 September 2016

SOLOMON HUGHES asks why government ministers are keeping their talks with disreputable outsourcing firm Serco a secret

Britain / 14 July 2016

Six cases of sex assaults probed at Yarl’s Wood

14 July 2016

Features / 27 June 2016

The EU was no friend to RMT members