Client: Libraries Unlimited and Devon County Council Date: June 2015 to July 2017 Challenges faced by the client: Public library...

Writing for the MJ, with services increasingly being transferred to new delivery models, MV’s Ben Cahill discusses the changing role of...

Writing for Public Sector Focus, MV Director Andrew Laird explores some of the early successes and lessons learned from new delivery...

At times working with the public sector can feel like dancing the tango. Cycles of three-year contracts, the rigmarole of preparing bids,...

Writing for Huffpost, MV’s Andrew Laird reflects on the growing support for the mutuals agenda. After a year in which the election and...

Writing for Pioneer’s Post, MV Director Andrew Laird urges public service managers and practitioners to be more open to the prospect of...

Writing for Pioneer’s Post, MV’s Andrew Laird contemplates how the philosophy of leading business thinker Charles Handy can be applied to...

Writing for HuffPost, Andrew Laird discusses how librarians in York have become more entrepreneurial. Over the last five years, library...

Writing for HuffPost, Andrew Laird makes the case for more human public services… There’s a widespread discussion going on about how...

Writing for the Guardian’s Social Care Network, MV’s Anne-Helene Sinha describes the experience of two adult social care spin-outs… When...

Writing for the Huffington Post, MV’s Andrew Laird discusses the disconnect between managers and staff that caused the failure at...

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...

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...

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...

Following more news reports that the NHS is in “crisis” and unable to deal with “renewed pressure” on its Accident and Emergency...

The Big Society theme of David Cameron’s campaign at the 2010 election was the target of mass media and political lampooning. It...

On Monday 11th August, a range of NHS leaders gathered for an event hosted by Mutual Ventures, the Cabinet Office and the Department of...

Our Quick Guide to growing public service mutuals is part of a series published by Pioneers Post to provide an introduction to key topics...

Client: City of York Council, Libraries and Archives Services / Explore York Libraries and Archives Date: February 2013 – May 2014...

Can former M&S boss Sir Stuart Rose help create a new management culture in hospitals? Will this help the almighty squeeze on budgets...