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THE Ministry of Defence (MoD) was “naive” to award outsourcing giant Capita a contract to handle recruitment for the British Army, a scathing new report by MPs says today.
Parliament’s public accounts committee (PAC) has branded Capita’s performance “abysmal” and “terrible,” warning that the firm “failed to meet the army’s recruitment targets every single year of the contract.”
The cross-party group of MPs said that this was “an unacceptable level of service delivery” and that the army and Capita “must share blame for soldier recruitment failures.”
DYLAN MURPHY reports that far from helping people back into work, the sanctions regime is inflicting unnecessary trauma on working-class families
With 121,000 vacancies and 44.8% of staff feeling unwell from work stress, the NHS 10-year plan will not succeed unless the government takes immediate action to retain existing staff, writes ANNETTE MANSELL-GREEN
