Press Release - TPP Law Launches New Guide to Public Services Mutuals
TPP Law has published a special report on how to set up
a mutual organisation to deliver public services. The guide responds to a resurgence
of interest in the use of mutuals to deliver public services ranging from education
to health and social care, leisure and childcare services. This appetite is likely to increase as the Coalition Government’s Big Society agenda seeks to transfer power
from state institutions back to community-led organisations.
Launching the guide while speaking at the Local Government Information Unit’s national conference on Rethinking Public Service Delivery in London on 29 June,
Managing Director Mark Johnson said,
"Mutual models have the advantage of involving a wider range of stakeholders in their governance arrangements which can help to incentivise better performance,
promote a sense of ownership and accountability and improve client satisfaction.
We have received a large number of inquiries from our clients in local authority
and health sectors about how to set up a mutual organisation and the issues involved.
This guide responds to that demand."
The concise special report examines the case for using a mutual and contains practical
tips on creating the Business Plan, market analysis, choosing the right legal format,
dealing with workforce issues and estates aspects.
The report can be downloaded
here.
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For further information contact
Mark Johnson
or
Owen Willcox.
NOTES FOR EDITORS
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TPP Law is a specialist law firm focused on creating innovative
partnerships for public services. The firm acts for local authorities, NHS bodies,
third sector and social enterprise clients to develop new service models in education,
health, social care and local government services. |
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The Coalition Government is committed to building the ‘Big
Society’. Part of this is about handing power from state institutions back to community-led
organisations. In an age of fiscal austerity there are also some difficult choices
to make about whether the state should be the provider of public services, or whether
they can be better provided by someone else, such
as the private sector or not-for
profit (third) sector. Recently there has been a resurgence of interest in the use
of mutual models to deliver public services. Mutuals could come into being through
the “right to request” programme already active in the NHS,
particularly amongst
primary care practitioners; or they could result from a strategic decision by a
host authority to hive off certain activities into a new provider unit to achieve efficiencies and sustainability through trading income. |
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TPP Law client Lambeth Council has already announced plans
to become a cooperative Council and is examining ways to transfer the running of
certain local services to community-led mutuals. See further:
www.lambeth.gov.uk/ |
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For More Information Contact:
Mark Johnson
TPP Law Limited
53 Great Suffolk Street
London SE1 ODB
t 020 7620 0888
f 020 7620 0778
e info@tpplaw.co.uk
Email: Mark
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