Overview
The BSA represents companies which deliver outsourced services across the private and public sectors. Full members have a combined UK turnover of circa £30 billion and a total UK workforce of 500,000 employees. The combined worldwide turnover is circa £80 billion and around 2 million people are employed.
Our key activities
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Public Affairs
We work to shape public policy and political debate in those areas that directly affect the industry. We also promote the positive benefits of the industry in the national and trade media.
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Research
We conduct primary research and analysis and publish our findings to provide evidence of the positive benefits of the outsourcing industry and to help inform good policy decisions.
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Publications
We publish research findings, polling data, policy papers and case studies to help build awareness and understanding of the industry among government officials, MPs, opinion formers and other stakeholders.
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Events
We organise policy seminars, an annual lecture and a number of networking and social events throughout the year.
Briefing notes
- Sorting out outsourcing: what it is, and what it isn’t Outsourcing and privatisation are two very different things. Without carefully differentiating between the two, the public services debate risks becoming stifled by misunderstanding and misplaced opposition.
- Healing the NHS: How outsourcing admin can help nurses to help patients Devolving responsibility for the NHS’s back-office functions can free nurses of paperwork and save the NHS money. The re- sult? Better patient ser- vice all round.
- Outsourcing's contribution to the UK economy Our research quantifies for the first time the size and reach of the outsourcing sector and reveals that it is far larger than previously thought.