

Case Study: South Ayrshire Radical Place Leadership
Client: South Ayrshire Council Date: August 2024 to January 2025 Challenges faced by the client: South Ayrshire’s Radical Place...
Mutual Ventures
Mar 123 min read


Case Study: Brent Radical Place Leadership
Client : Brent Council Date : August 2024 – January 2025 Challenges faced by the client: Brent is a vibrant borough in north-west London,...
Mutual Ventures
Jan 34 min read


Let's talk place: a collaborative solution to delayed discharges
An NHS fit for the future has been unveiled as one of the government's six national missions. In this article, Sophie Coles considers a...
Sophie Coles
Dec 11, 20244 min read


Public services must welcome partnership and prevention
Social care is pointing the way towards the use of working in partnership to deliver public services that prevent crisis by focusing on...
Emmet Regan
Nov 19, 20243 min read


Case Study: North East Lincolnshire Health and Care Partnership - Place Leadership Support
Client: Â North East Lincolnshire Health and Care Partnership Date: Â April to August 2024 Challenges faced by the client: North East...
Mutual Ventures
Sep 30, 20242 min read


A prescription for prevention: what has the new government promised?
The incoming Labour government has called for a 'revolution in prevention'. John Copps looks at what this means for healthcare services...
John Copps
Jul 23, 20243 min read


Adult social care services should be built around the bond between people and places
John Copps says that cooperative principles should provide the foundation for adult social care reform – rebuilding and maintaining the...
John Copps
Jun 12, 20244 min read

AI in public services – where do you start?
Andrew Laird looks at the potential of AI in public services and the lessons learnt from the recent exploratory work completed by a group...
Andrew Laird
May 7, 20243 min read


Adult social care must be built around the bond between people and places
John Copps says that cooperative principles should provide the foundation for adult social care reform – rebuilding and maintaining the...
John Copps
Oct 4, 20234 min read


Mutual Ventures visit to PossAbilities CIC
The Mutual Ventures team had an inspiring visit to social enterprise PossAbilities CIC to learn how they support vulnerable adults to...
Hannah Szczepanski
May 18, 20232 min read


How 'Relational Project Management' can help local government deliver projects effectively
John Copps outlines how Relational Project Management can help local government officers manage complex projects around relationships and...
John Copps
Nov 22, 20223 min read

Integrated care is set to become law, but you can’t legislate for successful partnership
John Copps argues that it will be NHS and local government leaders that make integrated care work, not Westminster law-makers. One of the...
John Copps
Feb 3, 20222 min read


The social care White Paper - new vision and opportunity for innovation, but funding dilemmas remain
Andrew Laird welcomes the publication of the social care white paper, and looks at what's new and what issues still remain. After a long...
Andrew Laird
Dec 2, 20213 min read


Fixing the adult social care crisis is about more than money
Adult social care has hit the headlines – not before time – with the Government’s plan to ‘fix the crisis for a generation’ by putting...
John Copps
Sep 8, 20213 min read


A national adult care model must be about the mutual bond between local people and places
John Copps argues that adult social care must be about the bond between local people and places. This article was originally published on...
John Copps
Jun 29, 20204 min read


Case study: London Borough of Barking and Dagenham All Age Disability Service
Client: London Borough of Barking and Dagenham Date: August 2019 – February 2020 Challenges faced by the client: The London Borough of...
Mutual Ventures
Mar 2, 20202 min read


Using data to improve your adult social care services
We can support you to design and implement improvements to your processes of collecting, managing and using information, helping to make...
Mutual Ventures
Dec 2, 20191 min read


Managing your adult social care provider market
Managing the market for providers of adult social care is a critical part of ensuring services users receive the support they need and...
Mutual Ventures
Dec 2, 20191 min read


Case study: North East Lincolnshire Council - Adult Social Services
Client: North East Lincolnshire Council Date: April 2019 – July 2019 Challenges faced by the client: North East Lincolnshire Council’s...
Mutual Ventures
Aug 1, 20192 min read


Achieving balance across the Adult Social Care system
In his article titled ‘Striking the right balance’, MV’s Emmet Regan emphasises the need for local authorities to reframe complex...
Mark Bandalli
Jul 17, 20193 min read