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ISA - staff side principles

Published: 2 September 2009
The following principles have been drawn up in partnership by trade unions and professional organisations which collectively represent over 4 million members affected by the ISA Vetting and Barring scheme. Our principles seek to support effective public protection, but also identify areas of concern surrounding the scheme.
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Positively Public Briefing - July-August 2009

Published: 31 July 2009
Stop health privatisation, says UNISON; FOI: private companies escape scrutiny; Schools PPP will cost taxpayers; Private Prison underperforming; UNISON “Living Library”; How union involvement benefits NHS
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Million Voices Health Factsheet

Published: 20 July 2009
The NHS is a key part of the fairer society envisaged by UNISON's Million Voices campaign, but our health service faces an increasing threat from privatisation.
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Annual report 2008/9

Published: 14 July 2009
This has been a defining year for UNISON. Faced with a gloomy economic forecast, attacks on public services and an uncertain political future, our solidarity and determination has been second to none.
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Positively Public Briefing - June 2009

Published: 30 June 2009
A million voices for a fairer society; Campaigning for public libraries; Education firm may close; Private health care investigated; PFI waste exposed; Good practice: green hospitals
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Reclaiming the Initiative - putting the public back into PFI

Published: 17 June 2009
The report catalogues how ever-growing billions of public money has become locked into financing massively expensive PFI schemes. The Government has committed taxpayers, for a generation to come, to a bill of more than £217bn worth of repayments between now and 2033/34 on just  £64bn of PFI projects. PFI’s reliance on the private sector was supposed to give public building programmes more rigour and strength but, as the union’s latest report - “Putting the Public Back into PFI” – shows, in reality it has exposed them to greater hazards and weaknesses. Public projects have been tainted by private failure
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Positively Public Briefing - May 2009

Published: 15 May 2009
Budget update; The value of local parks; PFI news; Liverpool-BT deal investigated; NHS workers delivering improvement
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Making the Connections, Contract Cleaning and Infection Control

Published: 1 May 2009
This report -makes the link between outbreaks of Healthcare Acquired Infections (HCAIs) such as MRSA and C Difficile. It points to evidence both in the UK and abroad that improved hospital cleaning plays a key part in controlling outbreaks of HCAIs
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Transforming Community Services:

Social enterprises
Published: 1 May 2009
UNISON Positively Public has produced a new factsheet on social enterprise to support branches in dealing with the TCS programme. It outlines the impact on staff who are transferred to social enterprises, including risks to pensions and NHS terms and conditions
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Positively Public Briefing - April 2009

Published: 14 April 2009
Campaign news: Public services and the Budget; Private homecare scandal; Civil servants wined and dined; Reports: Alternatives to outsourcing April briefing 2009
 
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