UNISON's vision for public services
UNISON represents people working across our public services, throughout the UK. It's their job, every day, to work for the public good - tackling disadvantage, extending opportunity, building stronger communities and improving everyone's quality of life.
Because of this UNISON has always stood for more than its member's pay and conditions - fundamental as these are. UNISON also stands for the best possible public services, available to all who need them. We have a dual role as advocates for public service workers and for the public they serve.
This document sets out UNISON's vision for public services, and the agenda for change we are working to put into practice wherever we can - by supporting our members in their jobs, negotiating with their employers, engaging in the big policy debates and campaigning for better services with users and communities.
We also want to hear about your experiences and ideas for taking this agenda forward - whether you work in public services or if, like everyone, you use them or want them to be there for you when you need them. So we hope you'll use the form at the back to tell us what you think (no stamp required) - or email
positivelypublic@unison.co.ukDocuments & LinksUNISON's vision for public services
Acrobat PDFUNISON NEC statement - financial and economic crisis
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CONTACT DETAILS
• The UNISON contact for the Positively Public campaign is Margie Jaffe.
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Recent documents
The role of private finance in public investment
The report shows that PFI is not value for money, despite the coalition government backing this form of investment. It warns that the cost of PFI has risen astronomically following the financial crisis and the gap between the rate at which the government and the private sector can borrow has widened dramatically.
The role of private finance in public investment
UNISON Response to Lord's Inquiry on PFI
UNISON's submission to the House of Lord's Inquiry into PFI highlights our concerns around the methodology of PFI, risk transfer, high costs, value for money and workforce issues.
UNISON Response to the Select Committee on Economic Affairs - House of Lords
Reclaiming the Initiative - putting the public back into PFI
The report catalogues how ever-growing billions of public money has become locked into financing massively expensive PFI schemes. The Government has committed taxpayers, for a generation to come, to a bill of more than £217bn worth of repayments between now and 2033/34 on just £64bn of PFI projects. PFI’s reliance on the private sector was supposed to give public building programmes more rigour and strength but, as the union’s latest report - “Putting the Public Back into PFI” – shows, in reality it has exposed them to greater hazards and weaknesses. Public projects have been tainted by private failure
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Transforming Community Services
This factsheet outlines the process for implementing the Transforming Community Services programme for primary care trusts.
Transforming community services factsheet
