Social Enterprises and Mutuals: Are they the Answer?

Craig Dearden-Phillips MBECambridge, September 2012

Several ‘lines of sight….’

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These are some of our Council clients…

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So you are MILES head of most areas – what now your options?

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How the new world is feeling to many in Councils

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We ignore the problems have and carry on as we are

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We scale-back in-house

We privatise

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Or we do other things

We innovate – and embrace new approaches to delivery

We create more dynamic forms of delivery organisation

We knit together resources

We use New Freedoms

We commission for Social Value

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What one other Council is doing

A little local difficulty

Saved! By a new mutual company

Realise – former supported employment service

Sensing Change – former sensory services

Leading Lives – former day & residential services

Social Enterprises from Councils

Why consider taking more service out?

You SHOULD save money

And engage community capital

Evidence stays staff Productivity (and happiness) should go up

Happy People = Productive People

Culture less like this….

And more like this

Organisationally..Less Like this…..

And more like this..

Less like this….

And more like this

Most of all you stitch resources together to form a bigger

Risks?

This sounds hard - why go to all this trouble?

What do Members like about SE?

By being more business-like, having a better culture and being freer to innovate and partner….

What Kind of Help is Out There?

Come and get a copy of our book (published by NESTA)

Contact me: craig@stepping-out.biz

ThankingYou for listening

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