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Serco Group PLC

  • Friday, 8 November, 2024
    Serco shares fall on Australian contract loss and changes to UK national insurance

    UK operator of prisons and asylum accommodation expects a combined £38mn hit in 2025

    A white Serco prison van is seen leaving the gates of Wormwood Scrubs prison in west London. The van is passing through ornate black and gold gates, with the prison's brick towers visible in the background.
  • Tuesday, 5 November, 2024
    Serco tracking devices on prison vans disabled after cyber attack

    Crews transporting offenders left without security in subcontractor outage that also hit DHL

    A Serco prison van arriving at the Old Bailey, in London
  • Wednesday, 23 October, 2024
    UK immigration
    UK ministers explore using break clauses in asylum housing contracts

    Home Office aims to revise terms or terminate after being ‘shocked’ by private companies’ profits

    A group of people, wearing life jackets and some wrapped in blankets, disembark from a Border Force vessel in Dover, Kent. They are being assisted by officials in high-visibility vests
  • Wednesday, 26 June, 2024
    Matthew Vincent
    A legal threat overhanging London market’s revival bid

    Court of Appeal to hear test case for widening use of class action lawsuits

    Reckitt products including Vanish and Dettol
  • Friday, 21 June, 2024
    News in-depthInvestments
    Shareholders turn to lawsuits over soured investments in UK companies

    Supporters say investor litigation raises governance standards but critics warn benefits skew to lawyers and funders

    Logos of Serco, Glencore, Barclays and Standard Charterd with Scales of Jutsice
  • Tuesday, 18 June, 2024
    Law
    Serco settles landmark shareholder lawsuit

    Case over share price drop was first of its kind in England to go to trial

    A Serco flag flies alongside a Union flag
  • Friday, 7 June, 2024
    Law
    Serco faces landmark shareholder lawsuit over mischarging scandal

    US-style securities trial over stock-price drop set to be first of its kind in England

    An electronic ankle tag on a teenage offender in the UK and the Serco logo
  • Friday, 23 February, 2024
    Outsourcer Serco ordered to stop using facial recognition to monitor staff

    UK watchdog cracks down for first time on an employer processing biometric data of workers

    A logo sign outside of a facility occupied by Serco in Columbia
  • Thursday, 14 December, 2023
    Serco increases bet on German immigration market

    Outsourcer buys European Homecare for €40mn as it flags impact from UK government plans to close migrant hotels

    Serco sign outside a Covid-19 test centre in England
  • Thursday, 29 June, 2023
    Global outsourcing
    Immigration: outsourcers will receive contracts surge — and painful scrutiny Premium content

    Risks such as scandals around the treatment of migrants can destabilise businesses

    Serco logo
  • Thursday, 29 June, 2023
    Serco lifts profit guidance as demand for immigration services rises

    London-listed contractor raises forecast for organic revenue growth and underlying profit by 4%

    A Serco flag flies alongside a Union flag outside Doncaster Prison in northern England
  • Saturday, 19 November, 2022
    Investments
    Directors’ Deals: Serco chief sells £3mn of shares

    Soames prepares for retirement after nine years at the top

  • Wednesday, 5 October, 2022
    Rail
    Serco’s Caledonian Sleeper contract to be axed next year

    Loss of overnight London to Scotland rail service raises prospect of renationalisation

    A Caledonian Sleeper train at Edinburgh Waverley station.
  • Monday, 12 September, 2022
    Lex
    Serco/Soames: defensive qualities of stabilised Serco have a downside Premium content

    Governments are critters even tougher than outsourcers, who tend to come off badly in any dispute

    Serco chief executive Rupert Soames
  • Monday, 12 September, 2022
    Rupert Soames to retire as Serco chief

    Mark Irwin to take over as head of London-listed outsourcing company

    Rupert Soames
  • Thursday, 26 May, 2022
    Immigration work helps Serco overcome end of UK Covid contracts

    Shares jump as revenues and profits upgraded above previous forecasts

    Serco staff working on behalf of NHS Test and Trace operate a coronavirus testing centre on July 30, 2020 in Stone
  • Thursday, 24 February, 2022
    Serco profits buoyed by government Covid contracts

    Outsourcer increases dividend by 15% and launches £90mn share buyback

    Serco staff working at a coronavirus testing centre in Stone, England
  • Monday, 15 November, 2021
    Covid contracts push Serco to upgrade full-year profit outlook

    Work housing asylum seekers also boosts revenues

    A Covid testing centre
  • Wednesday, 30 June, 2021
    Serco predicts first-half profits to climb 50%

    Outsourcer expects sales to rise by a fifth as it wins £322m contract to keep Covid testing centres running

  • Monday, 14 June, 2021
    Lex
    Serco: UK test and trace scheme boosts outsourcer Premium content

    Public criticism has weighed on share price but not prevented group from lifting profits

    A Serco worker advises a driver at a Covid-19 testing facility
  • Monday, 14 June, 2021
    City Bulletin
    Serco raises 2021 profit forecast Premium content

    Plus, BNP Paribas faces mis-selling allegations and Mohamed El-Erian on the Fed’s inflation puzzle

  • Monday, 14 June, 2021
    Serco upgrades profit guidance as test-and-trace demand persists

    Outsourcer’s divisions in line or ahead of budget in first five months of the year

    Serco staff working on behalf of NHS Test and Trace at a UK coronavirus testing centre
  • Monday, 26 April, 2021
    Serious Fraud Office UK
    SFO’s case against former Serco executives collapses

    Agency made mistakes when disclosing documents, jeopardising prisoner tagging trial

    Picture of a Serco company logo on a building
  • Wednesday, 7 April, 2021
    UK outsourcing
    Serco practice of moving profits within group ‘legitimate’, argues defence lawyer

    UK contractor’s financial models of shifting profits to Geografix subsidiary were not part of scam, court told

  • Tuesday, 30 March, 2021
    Ex-Serco executives accused of concealing £12m in offender-tagging contract

    Nicholas Woods and Simon Marshall appear in court on first day of SFO trial

    Picture of a Serco sign outside a Covid-19 walk-in testing centre in Slough, UK
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