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'It's time for me to outsource myself': Serco boss Rupert Soames to step down

THE grandson of Winston Churchill, Rupert Soames, is to step down from his role leading Serco, a company that holds millions of pounds worth of…

The National (Scotland)

Serco boss Rupert Soames to retire: ‘It’s time for me to outsource myself’

Chief executive has offered robust defences of controversial outsourcing firm since 2014

The Guardian - UK

Tories abandon plans to house 1,500 asylum seekers in Yorkshire village

Desertion of RAF Linton-on-Ouse scheme is latest immigration policy climbdown after Truss and Sunak opposed plans

The Guardian - UK

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'One of the most inhumane decisions I've ever seen': Inside one refugee's nine-year detention nightmare

When Najat Shalikhan arrived in Australia with her 16-year-old son Ahmed in August 2013, she thought they'd finally made it to safety. In reality, it was the beginning of another nightmare.

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Outsourcer Serco to hand out total of £9m in one-off payments to staff

The payments will be made to staff outside management grades

Birmingham Post

Adelaide Remand Centre general manager revealed as the suspect who stole $100,000 of prisoners' money

A suppression order on the identity of Adelaide Remand Centre's general manager, who is charged with theft, has now been lifted.

ABC News

Home Office contractor ‘gave children hotel food containing worms’

Family being housed in Midlands Home Office hotel ‘served worms in fish and chips’

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Home Office contractor gives children hotel food containing worms

Family accommodated in a Midlands hotel were sick after eating meal provided by Serco

The Guardian - UK

Revealed: dozens of vulnerable asylum seekers have died in Home Office housing since 2020

Data shows number of deaths is higher than admitted as experts question safeguarding and fear chances to save lives were missed

The Guardian - UK

The asylum seekers stuck in hotel rooms for months on end

Investigation: It was supposed to be a temporary measure. Now figures reveal that more than 28,000 asylum seekers are forced to live in rooms designed for short stays – with hundreds stuck there for more than a year. May Bulman speaks to the families enduring mould, bed bugs and vermin…

The Independent UK

Warning over Centrelink call centres as Services Australia slashes contracts

Exclusive: Agency says decision to cut outsourced workload by 30% is due to reduced demand as unions warn of longer wait times

The Guardian - AU

Lanarkshire MSP welcomes NHS agreement to bring support services at Wishaw General in-house

Labour’s Central Scotland list MSP Monica Lennon is pleased that the issue has been settled after a long campaign from unions.

Daily Record

'Major victory' as hundreds of jobs to be transferred to Scotland's NHS

Hundreds of workers at Wishaw’s University Hospital will be transferred from Serco to NHS Lanarkshire ...

The National (Scotland)

Agreement reached to bring support services at University Hospital Wishaw into NHS hands

NHS Lanarkshire announced it has reached an agreement in principle with the private financial initiative provider, Summit Healthcare Limited, and the current support service contractor Serco.

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UK government’s £2.9bn job search scheme has put only 7% of participants in work to date

Intensive ‘Restart’ programme is also struggling to find enough participants to meet predicted caseload

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Police ‘Punched’, ‘Kicked’ & Pepper-Sprayed Protesters Trying To Save Refugees From Deportation

"I’ve been protesting for all of my life and I have never seen bully men come through the way they did."

ABC News

Man found dead in cell at Clarence Correctional Centre near Grafton

NSW police are investigating the circumstances behind the death of a 41 year old inmate at a prison near Grafton.

The Guardian - UK

‘We’re collateral damage’: fury in Yorkshire village at its role in migrant detention plan

Priti Patel has buried ‘humane’ plans for refugees – and in Linton-on-Ouse, locals fear a new ‘reception centre’ has an undisclosed purpose

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Evening Standard

London elections 2022: Conservatives retain Bexley with 33 seats

Londoners went to the polls in local elections on May 5. Joe Talora has the lowdown on the vote in Bexley

The Guardian - UK

Is space the final frontier for Serco?

Brief letters: Clean-up operation | Trouble up north | Alveolar plosives | Ramblers’ descent | Boris Johnson’s lucrative future

The Guardian - UK

Mind that satellite! The mission to clean up dangerous space junk

As soon as we left the planet, we began leaving rubbish in orbit. Now it is putting space stations and astronauts at risk. What can be done about the millions of pieces of debris?

Daily Record

Mum lay awake at night for weeks as ‘rats’ infested her house

Serco, the company which provides asylum seeker accommodation for Home Office, claims the rodents found in the house were mice.

Liverpool Echo

Mum lay awake at night for weeks as 'rats' infested her home

Company which provides asylum seeker accommodation for Home Office says the animals were mice

Daily Mirror

Rats, sewage and cockroaches - UK's 'failed asylum system is unfit for Ukraine crisis'

A Mirror investigation into asylum services run by Mears, Serco and Clearsprings on behalf of the Home Office has highlighted serious issues with accommodation

The Guardian - UK

Serco’s annual profits surge 21% to £216m on back on Covid contracts

Increase could fund £100m in shareholder rewards as outsourcing firm bemoans ‘wildly unfair’ criticism of test and trace

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