Sentences with phrase «in the public sector prisons»

In the public sector prisons, officers were confident and knowledgeable, delivering routines that were safer and more reliable than in the private sector.

The number of officers in public sector prisons has been cut by 41 % in less than four years, according to new figures obtained by penal reformers.

There were only 14,170 officer grade staff working in public sector prisons in June 2014, compared to over 24,000 at the end of August 2010.

Not exact matches

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First, public sector Chefs and Cooks are mostly people who work in large institutions like prisons and hospitals.

A briefing document produced by the Good Food for Our Money campaign calling for legally binding sustainability standards for seafood served in public sector institutions such as government departments, hospitals, schools, prisons and the armed forces.

Indeed, when the research team evaluated three further private prisons, they found that prisoner quality of life was higher in two of these additional prisons than in either the poorer performing private prisons or either of the public sector prisons in the study.

Methodology: the research had two main components: an interview, survey and observation based study of senior managers in public and private sector corrections; and a mainly ethnographic and survey - based study of four matched public and private sector prisons and three additional establishments involving observations of and interviews with prisoners and staff, and the administration of quality of life surveys to both groups.

Managers in the private sector prisons acknowledged that staff did not follow procedures as well as public sector staff.

They reflect some deep - seated trends and affect prisons in both the public and private sectors.

Public sector staff in eight more prisons have learned they face privatisation just two weeks after job cuts were announced by the company set to take over Birmingham prison, the Public and Commercial Services union says.

Paul was at one point governor of the public - sector Brixton prison, while Janine, was the director of the Sodexo - run Bronzefield women's prison in west London.

The government risks further embarrassment this year as Mr Brown has been uncompromising in his insistence public sector workers such as nurses, police officers and prison guards must accept a 1.9 per cent pay rise to maintain inflation.

Privatization of libraries, hospitals, prisons, and other basic services had long been hailed by those on the political right, but how could one persuade entire communities to hand over their children and their public schools to private sector corporations, some of which hoped to turn a profit off their children, in order to reward their shareholders?

Private finance initiative (PFI) / public - private partnership (PPP) The private finance initiative (PFI) is a way of getting private sector involved in financing public sector projects like schools, hospitals and prisons.

Shubha Banerjee, solicitor at Leigh Day, who represents 230 judges, said: «Following the report of Lord Hutton in 2011 into ways of reducing the costs of public sector pensions, the government sought to make changes across the public sector including to the pensions of police, firefighters, teachers, prison officers and others.

Patrick has been a member of the Attorney General's «B» panel since March 2014, having previously been on the «C» panel, and has acted in numerous claims for judicial review across a range of areas, including prisons, immigration, social security, libraries, human rights and the public sector equalities duty.

Steve has worked in the public sector through community mental health, at a federal prison and with Indian Health Services prior to going into private practice.