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About Clare Sambrook

Clare Sambrook, novelist, journalist, won both the Paul Foot Award and the Bevins Prize for outstanding investigative journalism in 2010. Clare is a Co-Editor of OurKingdom and co-founder of End Child Detention Now. Her exposé of corruption in the Olympics, The Great Olympic Swindle (co-author Andrew Jennings), was shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year in 2000.

Articles by Clare Sambrook

How many children secretly deported under UK Border Agency’s Gentleman’s Agreement?

Clare Sambrook 7 June 2012

When heartless illegality is official Government policy.

Like it or not, G4S is securing your world

Clare Sambrook 6 June 2012

Today, on the eve of the company’s annual meeting in London, we launch our G4S collection.

UK policymaking outsourced: the curious case of adoption reform

Clare Sambrook 26 May 2012

Breathtaking collusion between ministers, special advisers and Rupert Murdoch’s lieutenants is being dragged into the light by the Leveson inquiry. Where else is policy being created by cabal?

Is the UK Government fattening up defence logistics for the private sector?

Clare Sambrook 24 April 2012

Is the Government neglecting to scrutinise what Ministry of Defence officials are doing? Or is lack of scrutiny a deliberate and necessary part of the privatisation process? 

Corporate Power stamps its brand on British Policing

Clare Sambrook 14 April 2012

The end of the British Bobby? Is policing by corporate power replacing policing by consent? Clare Sambrook exposes the insidious first steps of G4S, the world's largest security company, as it moves in on the police force of Lincolnshire (Margaret Thatcher's home county). 

 

Who should investigate murder — the police, or a private security company?

Clare Sambrook 13 April 2012

Security company G4S recruits "outstanding investigative officers" to run murder investigations in the UK for £25,000-a-year.

Respect and suicide prevention at the UK Border Agency

Clare Sambrook 14 February 2012

The Home Office claims all immigration custody officers now carry anti-ligature knives — after years of urging by HM Inspector of Prisons

The truth about health “reform”: it's the demolition of the NHS

Clare Sambrook 27 January 2012
Faith groups and charities must join the medical profession in strong, relentless and effective opposition to the government's wrecking of the NHS.

A child, a bleeding anus, interrogation by the UK Border Agency

Clare Sambrook 17 January 2012

Landing in Dover, a new report from the Children’s Commissioner for England

“Duty of care” vs “earnings per share”: private contractors in the UK immigration removals business

Clare Sambrook 7 July 2011

Private contractors are “out of control” and Amnesty International calls for a complete overhaul of UK immigration removals

Frisk the 5-year-old: the UK Government’s new compassionate approach to child detention

Clare Sambrook 6 July 2011

Children are being routinely detained by inadequately-trained staff for long periods in immigration lock-ups at Heathrow Airport. This is despite the British government's claims to have ended child detention for immigration purposes

Why Britain’s refugees and asylum seekers have little to cheer about: a reply to Tim Finch

Clare Sambrook 24 June 2011
A reply to a piece highlighting the positive aspects of British asylum policy and politics, by a former Chair of National Refugee Week

PFI: transferring billions from UK taxpayers to private financiers

Clare Sambrook 22 June 2011

The Private Finance Initiative has recklessly transferred billions from UK taxpayers to private financiers. Now we’re nicely asking for a little bit of our money back

Duty of Care: beyond the case of Mr Ward, cooked to death by gigantic outsourcer G4S

Clare Sambrook 8 June 2011

The horrible death of a respected Aboriginal elder casts doubt upon often-unchallenged assumptions about the virtues of privatisation.

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Niki Seth-Smith is a freelance journalist and co-editor of OurKingdom.

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