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Serco
Policing / 17 April 2026
Serco’s hidden role in Ice training
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
Shelan and her children Sana and Anas
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
Rubbish piled in a Serco-run hotel
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
A Caledonian Sleeper train
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
A Caledonian Sleeper train at Edinburgh Waverley Station
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
A Caledonian Sleeper train at Edinburgh Waverley Station
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
NHS Test and Trace staff
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
A campaigner outside the Department of Health and Social Car
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
Samples are taken at a coronavirus testing facility in Templ
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
A campaigner outside the Department of Health and Social Car
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
A campaigner outside the Department of Health and Social Car
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
An NHS Test and Trace logo on a member of staff's jacket at
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
Campaigners outside the Department of Health and Social Care
Editorial: / 11 October 2020
Lockdowns will not suppress Covid-19 while we outsource its suppression
11 October 2020
Campaigners outside the Department of Health and Social Care
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
Prime Minister Boris Johnson
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
Brook House Immigration Removal Centre
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
Caledonian Sleeper
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
27 June 2016
by Gordon Martin
Britain / 19 May 2016
Public CalMac wins isles and Clyde ferry contract
19 May 2016
SNP comes down on side of good after ‘hugely wasteful’ contest with Serco
Features / 7 April 2016
Even Clinton is rejecting private prisons – so why isn’t Britain?
7 April 2016
It’s pure folly to invite some of the US’s worst corporations over here to run our justice system, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
Britain / 10 March 2016
Yarl’s Wood activists hit Serco HQ
10 March 2016
Britain / 22 December 2015
Cally Sleeper workers walk out amid safety concerns
22 December 2015
Features / 5 October 2015
United NHS movement can rock Cameron’s government
5 October 2015
An alliance of activists, health workers and trade unions is saying ‘No more’ to the Tory government’s increasingly deranged attempts to undermine our NHS, as JOHN LISTER examines
Features / 26 August 2015
Hear no evil, see no evil
26 August 2015
Controversial private firms running migrant detention centres have been allowed to ‘monitor’ their own behaviour without anyone watching over them, writes STEVEN WALKER
Britain / 9 August 2015
Huge protest haunted by harrowing cries for help
9 August 2015
Biggest Yarl’s Wood detention centre protest hears from the women held inside
Features / 23 July 2015
The Man Behind the Bill
23 July 2015
In the shadows lurks a little-known Tory lackey with big business links who is poised to snatch our right to strike. SOLOMON HUGHES investigates
Britain / 3 July 2015
Custody officer death ‘marks rising violence’
3 July 2015
Britain / 3 July 2015
Yarl's Wood medics out weekly to treat self-harm
3 July 2015
Attended cases feared to be ‘tip of the iceberg’ for imprisoned immigrant victims of torture and rape
Britain / 28 June 2015
Justice system in meltdown
28 June 2015
Experts warn of prison privateers tightening grip
Britain / 26 June 2015
Scotland: CalMac strikers: It’s sink or swim in ferry service sell-off
26 June 2015
Britain / 14 June 2015
Ferry operators sail towards strike
14 June 2015
Britain / 11 June 2015
GMB Conference: Corporations ‘can still make profits from childcare’
11 June 2015
Features / 5 May 2015
The NHS is in terminal decline. Who is brave enough to act?
5 May 2015
On the eve of the election, JOHN LISTER points out the people killing our health service — a sinister cast of inept yet greedy privateer bosses and ideologue MPs
Features / 24 April 2015
United we stand
24 April 2015
The National Gallery is hell-bent on privatising visitor services – against the wishes of the staff and the public. PCS members have voted for industrial action to halt the madness. JAMIE INSOLE has the story