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A PricewaterhouseCoopers sign
SOCIALISTS and trade unionists were left fuming today after a multinational accounting firm was awarded a public contract to run Scotland’s national care service.
It was announced this week that the Scottish government had awarded an initial contract for the new service to PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).
The £100,000 contract is for “mobilisation of the national care service,” including a “high-level roadmap towards delivery of design,” according to a contract award notice.
Years of underfunding are eroding Scotland’s local services and deepening inequality in communities, says VINCE MILLS
Working-class women lead the fight for fair work and equitable pay and against sexual harassment, the rise of the far right and years of failed austerity policies, writes ROZ FOYER
On the release of her memoir that reveals everything except politics, Sturgeon’s endless media coverage has focused on her panic attacks, sexuality and personal tragedies while ignoring her government’s many failures, writes PAULINE BRYAN
