Combining the best of the public and private sectors: the case for Public Service Mutuals
Writing for the LSE politics and policy blog, MV’s Andrew Laird explores the case for public service mutuals in the current...
Andrew Laird
Aug 3, 20174 min read
Case study: Libraries Unlimited (formerly Devon Library Service)
Client: Libraries Unlimited and Devon County Council Date: June 2015 to July 2017 Challenges faced by the client: Public library...
Mutual Ventures
Aug 1, 20173 min read
Public service reform and the impact on councillors
Writing for the MJ, with services increasingly being transferred to new delivery models, MV’s Ben Cahill discusses the changing role of...
Mutual Ventures
May 8, 20173 min read
New delivery models take centre stage
Writing for Public Sector Focus, MV Director Andrew Laird explores some of the early successes and lessons learned from new delivery...
Andrew Laird
May 2, 20174 min read
Bidding for public service contracts
At times working with the public sector can feel like dancing the tango. Cycles of three-year contracts, the rigmarole of preparing bids,...
John Copps
Aug 5, 20161 min read
Theresa May Gives the Stamp of Approval to Public Service Mutuals
Writing for Huffpost, MV’s Andrew Laird reflects on the growing support for the mutuals agenda. After a year in which the election and...
Andrew Laird
Jul 13, 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
Here’s how public services can find their second curve…
Writing for Pioneer’s Post, MV’s Andrew Laird contemplates how the philosophy of leading business thinker Charles Handy can be applied to...
Andrew Laird
Nov 4, 20154 min read
From Librarian to Entrepreneur
Writing for HuffPost, Andrew Laird discusses how librarians in York have become more entrepreneurial. Over the last five years, library...
Andrew Laird
Oct 28, 20153 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
Life outside the public sector: what it’s like to be a social care spin-out
Writing for the Guardian’s Social Care Network, MV’s Anne-Helene Sinha describes the experience of two adult social care spin-outs… When...
Mutual Ventures
Oct 6, 20153 min read
What Can We Learn From the Failure at Addenbrooke’s Hospital?
Writing for the Huffington Post, MV’s Andrew Laird discusses the disconnect between managers and staff that caused the failure at...
Andrew Laird
Sep 25, 20153 min read
From employee to boss: quitting the public sector for a staff-led company
Writing for Community Care, MV’s Oliver Cappleman looks at how staff from two care services fared when they left the public sector to set...
Oliver Cappleman
Sep 22, 20154 min read
Five steps to unleashing the public sector’s greatest asset
Make sure your staff are engaged and the whole machine will work better. Writing in Pioneer’s Post, MV’s Emmet Regan sets out five key...
Emmet Regan
Aug 22, 20153 min read
Staff engagement is the NHS’s greatest asset but it’s yet to reach full potential
Writing for HSJ, MV’s John Copps argues that staff engagement is no longer just a ‘nice to have’ but a pre-condition for a high...
John Copps
Jun 25, 20154 min read
Employee empowerment: the right sort of change in the NHS
Following more news reports that the NHS is in “crisis” and unable to deal with “renewed pressure” on its Accident and Emergency...
Andrew Laird
Jan 12, 20153 min read
Why ‘Big Society’ is a dismantled concept in need of repair
The Big Society theme of David Cameron’s campaign at the 2010 election was the target of mass media and political lampooning. It...
Andrew Laird
Nov 11, 20143 min read
The next phase of NHS mutualisation is about to begin!
On Monday 11th August, a range of NHS leaders gathered for an event hosted by Mutual Ventures, the Cabinet Office and the Department of...
Andrew Laird
Aug 11, 20143 min read
Going for Growth: MV's Quick Guide to growing public service mutuals
Our Quick Guide to growing public service mutuals is part of a series published by Pioneers Post to provide an introduction to key topics...
Mutual Ventures
Jul 4, 20141 min read
Case study: Explore York Libraries and City of York Council
Client: City of York Council, Libraries and Archives Services / Explore York Libraries and Archives Date: February 2013 – May 2014...
Mutual Ventures
Jun 2, 20143 min read