
Register now for the DfE national event on Strengthening Families, Protecting Children!
Mutual Ventures is pleased to be involved in a national event on 14-15 June, for the Department for Education’s Strengthening Families,...
Jordan Binedell
May 5, 20221 min read

MV welcomes publication of the third issue of the Strengthening Families Learning Journal
Today the third issue of the Strengthening Families Learning Journal is published, with a focus on approaches to social care that involve...
Jordan Binedell
Feb 28, 20221 min read

Catch up on our webinar: Putting Family Hubs at the centre of your Early Help offer
On Tuesday 1st February we held a free webinar, Putting Family Hubs at the centre of your Early Help offer – What To Think About When...
Mutual Ventures
Feb 1, 20221 min read


2022: Looking ahead with questions rather than predictions
Andrew Laird reflects on the uncertainties facing public services and asks three key questions that will shape the year ahead. It’s...
Andrew Laird
Dec 9, 20214 min read

Catch up on our webinar: Reimagining The Provision Of Children’s Residential Care
The cost and quality of placements for Looked After Children is a significant challenge for Children’s Services across the country. We...
Mutual Ventures
Nov 12, 20211 min read


Learning from the Family Valued approach to children's services in Darlington
Mutual Ventures welcomes the publication of a series of resources outlining lessons from the implementation of Family Valued in...
John Copps
Sep 20, 20211 min read

Beyond Asset Transfer: New CCIN report on Community Asset Transfer
Community assets enrich our lives, help to create strong and resilient communities, and support the effectiveness of public services....
John Copps
Jul 1, 20212 min read


What public services can learn from other responses to the pandemic
Emmet Regan argues that the experience of COVID-19 has demonstrated that and that public services have lots to learn from other sectors....
Emmet Regan
Mar 16, 20213 min read


Innovation is only as good as the system in which it operates – reflections on the 2020 Intelligent
MV’s Umar Majid reflects on February’s Intelligent Health Conference in London – asking what we can learn from the best innovations in AI...
Umar Majid
Feb 24, 20202 min read


Case study: HeadStart Programme to support young people's mental health
Client: The National Lottery Community Fund (TNLCF) Date: 2015-2018 Challenges faced by the client: Children’s mental health and...
Mutual Ventures
Mar 15, 20182 min read


Case study: Department for Education Teaching Partnerships
Client: Department for Education Date: April – June 2015 Challenge faced by the client: Training social workers is a key issues for the...
Mutual Ventures
Jun 30, 20162 min read


Public service staff need space to learn from mistakes
Writing for HuffPost, MV’s Andrew Laird says public service staff need to be given safe space to learn from mistakes… I recently read...
Andrew Laird
Apr 19, 20163 min read


Should public services be “experimental”?
Writing for Pioneer’s Post, MV Director Andrew Laird urges public service managers and practitioners to be more open to the prospect of...
Andrew Laird
Mar 25, 20163 min read


Public Services Need a Dose of Maverickism
Writing for Huffpost, MV’s Andrew Laird makes the case for more mavericks in public services… I believe the next five years will see the...
Andrew Laird
Mar 5, 20163 min read


Let’s Release Public Services From the ‘Computer Says No’ Culture
Writing for HuffPost, Andrew Laird makes the case for more human public services… There’s a widespread discussion going on about how...
Andrew Laird
Oct 8, 20153 min read


Public service entrepreneurship: get prototyping
Fail early and cheaply – in the second article in our public service entrepreneurship series, Andrew Laird says it’s time for public...
Andrew Laird
Jun 29, 20153 min read


Innovation in public services – radical or incremental?
In his latest Pioneers Post article, Mutual Ventures Director Andrew Laird argues that in the world of public services where people...
Andrew Laird
Jul 30, 20143 min read

In the year of “hard truths” – local service innovation will be critical
‘Hard truths’ worth £63 billion in cuts to the public sector mean local service innovation in the next few years will be critical to...
Andrew Laird
Jan 30, 20143 min read