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To: Essex County Council
Stop Virgin Care Taking Over Health and Family Services in Essex
We call upon Essex County Council to stop their plans to privatise Health and Family Care services and let them to Virgin Care, a company that pays no tax in the UK.
Why is this important?
Essex County Council have packaged all their health, well-being and family services for residents from pre-birth to 19 years and have decided to let the contract to run them to Virgin Care.
Good childcare is vital for the future of this country and this move can only serve to reduce the quality of childcare in Essex.
The services affected include:
• Health visitors
• Children's Centres
• Family Nurse Partnership
• The 0-5 Healthy Child Programme
• The 5-19 Programme
This takeover represents an example of creeping privatisation of services to a situation where there is reduced accountability and a strong possibility of cuts to hard working staff and their employment rights.
The NHS and its related services should remain a publicly provided, publicly funded health service for the benefit of all UK citizens, not for the benefit of those who wish to make a profit.
Virgin Care Ltd pays no corporation tax in the UK and should therefore not profit from the UK taxpayer. It is part of a group whose ultimate parent company is based in the British Virgin Islands, which is a tax haven. Virgin Care has been quietly picking up multi million healthcare contracts across the UK to run at the taxpayers expense for the benefit of their offshore shareholders. (source: http://bit.ly/virgincareprofile)
Help us tell Essex County Council we don't want Virgin Care in Essex.
