I worked for the #ProbationService for 15 yrs. The last 2 for the #privatesector after it was privatised. This article reminded me of my failed attempts to get an extremely risky #domesticabuse case classified as high risk. Bc of privatisation, this meant he would be transferred to the #NPS (who supervised high risk cases) 1/4
While #politicians argue about how & if we might undergo a #greentransition some people are just getting on with it.
A new report from the Energy & Climate Intelligence Unit suggest the UK's #netzero economy grew by nearly 10% in 2023, while also providing well paid & productive employment for #workers.
While good news this will confirm to some on the right that the #privatesector can get on without state aid... but Green Keynsianism would accelerate this further!
#ClimateDiary There is no question that #COP28 will be the most important yet. The #GlobalStocktake will be the “biggest accountability moment in history”, and on its basis leaders will need to make crucial key decisions about fiscal and policy commitments. With less than two months to go, we need to all be as well informed as possible and put pressure on leaders as much as we can. I thought I would start a 🧵that I will keep going in the run up 1/n
@pvonhellermannn don’t trust the #privateSector with optimising for the environment. They can maximally be expected to optimise for selling #greenness. We have to expect, the private sector will ignore all environmental implications they can get away with, i.e. externalise as much as possible within any #internalisation project. #EnvironmentalEconomics
Centre plans to open TRAI chairperson’s post to private sector
The current TRAI chairperson, P D Vaghela, is a Gujarat-cadre 1986-batch IAS officer, and was earlier Secretary, Department of Pharmaceuticals. His predecessor, R S Sharma, a Jharkhand-cadre 1978-batch IAS officer, was the IT Secretary from 2014 to 2015.
In an interview with the FT, Thomas Buberl, Axa Insurance's CEO baldly notes that the #NHScrisis presents 'quite a few business opportunities' as he continues to expand Axa's private #healthcare business in the UK.
It'll be no surprise that he would see the travails of the #Tory engineered health care crisis this way, and merely confirms that the #privatesector completely understand what the #Tories' wrecking of the #NHS is intended to achieve.
So, Steve Barclay says (on expanding #privatesector involvement in the #NHS), 'We must use every available resource to deliver life-saving checks to ease pressure on the NHS'!
So here's an idea Mr Barclay:
a. money is a resource;
b. its available (because you're spending with private sector providers);
c. Why not add it to the core funding of the NHS.... pay the staff better & expand the maintenance funds...
Today #KeirStarmer will declare the #NHScrisis to be the key issue for the next #election; which merely follows it growing place in people's priorities & concerns.
While it looks like he'll pledge to improve performance & reduce waiting times across the system, the real issue will be how he's going to do that?
If (as Wes Streeting has already hinted) they're going to increase the role of the #privatesector then for many this will confirm the final capitulation of Labour to Toryism... lets see