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serco
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Some of the contractors getting too much cash for too little work include infamous privatisers like Serco and G4S.
The scheme, Restart, was designed to stop post-Covid unemployment from rising. This is another Covid contractor rip-off story. Despite this, the NAO report was entirely ignored by the newspapers.
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