Guardian reports on growth of private 'public services industry'‏

"As support service companies jockey for position, some are growing uneasy about the prospect of the private sector providing more public services, often to vulnerable members of society such as children, the sick and the elderly. Questions are also being raised whether all the benefits of outsourcing claimed by the industry stack up" http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/feb/17/outsourcing-boom-as-cuts-bite/print
See also The Public Services Industrial Complex and Public Services Industry poised to make a killing