Mutuals given go-ahead as Cabinet Office confirms initial pilots
August 27, 2010
The first wave of John Lewis-style ‘employee-owned’ public services were given the go ahead this week by the Coalition Government. The Cabinet Office has announced 12 ‘public service spin -offs’ to be pioneered as mutuals. This will see entrepreneurial public sector workers joining together, often across organisational boundaries, to establish co-operatives or social enterprises. All the pilots will be supported by expert mentors including staff from the John Lewis Partnership. Initial pilot sites include services in Westminster, Essex, Lambeth, Mansfield, Hamersmith and Fulham, Kensington and Chelsea, Swindon, and Leicester.
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