Privatisation fail: 8 out of 21 probation contracts scuppered in just a month
Fri 15 Mar 2019.
Source: leftfootforward.org
Purple Futures is a partnership between third-sector organisations P3, PSC, and Shelter, and Interserve, a multinational outsourcing and construction company. Interserve has been involved in a number of controversial outsourcing and private-public government initiatives, including PFI loans for hospitals and schools and the DWP's controversial Work Programme, and provides services in health, defence and justice. Interserve is a UK plc listed on the London Stock Exchange.
Purple Futures provides probation and rehabilitation services through Community Rehabilitation Companies in five UK regions, making it one of the largest probation providers in the country. Purple Futures runs CRCs in Humberside, Lincolnshire and North Yorkshire; West Yorkshire, Merseyside, South Yorkshire, Chester and Greater Manchester; and Hampshire and Isle of Wight.
