Overall chief executive Ruby McGregor-saidh, said: We continue to see a range of good outsourcing opportunities across our key markets and anticipate modest growth in the coming year.
For medical items, the highest rate of outsourcing is in the ambulance department (51.4%).
"Police forces are being forced to outsource on a scale, at a speed and across areas that have never been seen before," he said, adding that police commissioners were being given a wide range of powers to outsource services.
Mortgages, moreover, involve a whole range of processes ripe for outsourcing.
A union has attacked a decision by Suffolk County Council to support the policy of outsourcing a wide range of it services.
The Department for Education (DfE) is consulting on allowing councils to outsource a range of children's social care functions.
Similarly, there are serious concerns about the effect on Southport and Ormskirk NHS Trust now that West Lancashire CCG has opted to outsource a range of urgent care services, such as GP out-of-hours services and walk-in centres.
The range of tasks that can be outsourced and offshored is constantly expanding.The notion that trade kills jobs is based on the false premise that there is a fixed amount of work to do.
A wide range of IT services are commonly outsourced, as are accounting, payroll, legal, insurance, real estate, sales, customer support, human resources, staffing, consulting, marketing, public relations and design.
It says the force's 10 year agreement with Steria has also allowed it to outsource a wide range of back and middle office functions which do not require the experience of police officers.
