Public Services

Scottish Futures Trust & Private Finance

Author / Creator: Dave Watson

Media type: Briefing

Date published: 2026

Scottish Futures Trust (SFT) is a government-owned company is exaimined in the context of renewed interest in private financing of public services.


Private profit doesn't make government more efficient

Author / Creator: Robin McAlpine

Media type: Article

Date published: 2025

For 50 years we've lived as if private profit is good for public services and it has led to the mass extraction of public wealth by corporate insiders. 


Debt Dramas

Author / Creator: Charlie McCurdy

Media type: Report

Date published: 2024

£19 billion of cuts to unprotected departmental spending – from Justice to Local Government – [are] pencilled in for after the [20214] election