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Tuesday 7 July 1998

The Schools Private Finance Illusion

Would you pay a mortgage for 30 years, and then let the bank keep your house? Opinion piece Evening News 7 July 2008 http://www.unison-edinburgh.org.uk/pfi.html 

That, astonishingly, is what the public private partnership (PPP) for Edinburgh's schools will really mean. PPP and the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) is not new money, it replaces public funding, it costs more and it takes away our say over our service.