The Open Public Services agenda is a massive drive to privatisation

Matt Dykes, writing on the TUC's Stronger Unons blog, provides a comprehensive critique of privatisation and calls on unions to promote in house service delivery, to build a rigorous evidence base on the benefits of public service delivery as well as form alliances with community groups and service users to derail the privatisation juggernaught:
http://touchstoneblog.org.uk/2012/07/is-the-tide-turning-on-public-sector-outsourcing/