The following details have been supplied by PCS:
On Wednesday (2nd April 2014) morning PCS will be holding a parliamentary drop-in session to brief MPs about the latest developments in Shared Services.
As part of the Government's drive to privatise large parts of the civil service, it is outsourcing 'shared services' that provide support such as IT, pay and payroll, procurement, and Finance.
Earlier this month a Government joint venture with French Multinational Steria known as SSCL, announced it was to close three shared service offices in Cardiff, Leeds and Sheffield, make over 500 jobs redundant and offshore more than 200 jobs to India. This announcement affects members in DWP, DEFRA and Environment Agency offices. We are concerned that other departments could follow suit with MoJ already planning to join on of two already outsourced shared services contracts.
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