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Positively Public - campaigning for quality public services

What is Positively Public?
Positively Public is UNISON's campaign for quality in our public services, and for recognition of the essential role of public service workers in achieving this.

Positively Public has campaigned on a range of public service issues, from the quality of school meals and hospital cleaning to the promotion of best practice. We have won widespread recognition and support for our evidence-based critiques of policies such as the Private Finance Initiative and have been successful in securing a number of important policy changes.

UNISON's strategy
UNISON has pursued a twin track approach to public service campaigning that opposes the privatisation and marketisation of public services in principle but also recognises that where reforms are going ahead, UNISON must get the best protections for our members.

UNISON campaigns for public services at international, national and local level, working with a diverse range of organisations who share our views on public services.

Campaign Issues
Positively Public challenges the drive to privatise and marketise public services and is currently campaigning across a range of issues and services.

All our evidence and experience shows that once services are run for private profit, the quality of care and service is reduced and the public service ethos is replaced by a hard-nosed profit motive.

Join us campaigning for quality public services.

CONTACT DETAILS
• The UNISON contact for the Positively Public campaign is Margie Jaffe.
Positively Public
1 Mabledon Place
London WC1H 9AJ
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Recent documents
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
Link to a PDF document on this siteAcrobat PDF version
A million voices for change
Download UNISON's agenda for a strong economy and a fair society and get involved in our campaign
Link to a PDF document on this sitePutting you first
Transforming Community Services
This factsheet outlines the process for implementing the Transforming Community Services programme for primary care trusts.
Link to a PDF document on this siteTransforming community services factsheet
Revised 'Two Tier Workforce' code
Justice for Contracted Public Service Workers: UNISON's concerns about the revised 'Two-Tier Workforce' code
Link to a PDF document on this site Revised Two tier Worforce code

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