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... that the finding underlines a trend towards spending more on outsourced services. Social services departments recognised that providing in-house homecare was more expensive than buying it from the private sector, in the same way that ...

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... skills are being paid between 4.4 per cent and 13.4 per cent more a year than general purchasing staff. The trend to pay more for IT specialists is continuing, according to the survey. Purcon’s ...

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