Not offshored (yet) but majorly starved. I went to school right next door to Hesketh House... Which is case you didn't know is where all civil servant, LA authority and NHS pensions are processed.
In fact the high school was built because of the huge proportion of DHSS staff on a new estate where about 1 in 2 households had someone who was a civil servant or ICI worker and a new school had to be built to accommodate the influx of civil servants with kids to the area
It's probably not an under estimation to say that easily 20% of my friends when leaving school (as long as they had the necessary GCSEs) would end up working as civil servants there.
These days jobs there are VERY scarce. All of my friends who were 'civil servants' are now employed by capita, those that are still there moan about how things have changed.
Anyone new who is taken on is working under not good conditions. In fact my daughter worked there for a short time when she left school. She thought she had a job, but would report for work to be told nothing to do today so no wages and sent home. It was a nightmare for her trying to sort out how many hours she had or hadn't worked with the job center. Some weeks it was ok, others she wouldn't have anything, hence her deciding to look elsewhere because it was just too unpredictable.
I can imagine once those who were 'protected' during the DHSS to Capita transition, reach retirement themselves, that things may change dramatically.