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Mar 31
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Case study: Department for Education Children's Social Care Innovation Programme

Client: The Department for Education, Children’s Social Care Innovation Programme Date: March 2014 – March 2021 Challenges faced by the...

Case study: Department for Education and Northamptonshire Children's Trust

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Mar 31
2 min

Case study: Department for Education and Northamptonshire Children's Trust

Client: Department for Education Date: August 2019 - Present Challenges faced by the client: Due to continued poor performance in...

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Mar 31
3 min

Case study: Regional Adoption Agencies

Client: Department for Education Date: 2016 – Present Challenges faced by the client: The adoption system faced significant challenges in...

Our response to the call for evidence for the Government's Community Ownership Fund

John Copps

Mar 31
1 min

Our response to the call for evidence for the Government's Community Ownership Fund

As part of the budget in March, the Chancellor announced a new £150m Community Ownership Fund to help community groups buy or take over...

David Fairhurst

Mar 8
2 min

David Fairhurst: I’ve learnt that… you need to build bridges between central and local government

David’s reflection: I have learnt that for the machinery of government to work, central government policy developers need to translate...

Can the Levelling Up Fund help reset councils’ relationship with Whitehall?

Emmet Regan

Dec 16, 2020
3 min

Can the Levelling Up Fund help reset councils’ relationship with Whitehall?

With relations between central and local government fraught, Emmet Regan asks whether the Levelling Up Fund provides an opportunity to...

The Kruger report on Levelling Up: a step towards consensus between government and civil society

John Copps

Sep 26, 2020
3 min

The Kruger report on Levelling Up: a step towards consensus between government and civil society

Danny Kruger’s report – Levelling Up our Communities – proposes a re-emphasis on communities in the recovery from COVID-19. John Copps...

A welcome kick start for the “levelling up” agenda

Andrew Laird

Sep 25, 2020
3 min

A welcome kick start for the “levelling up” agenda

MV’s Andrew Laird says that a new report by Danny Kruger MP provides a welcome kick start for the government’s levelling-up agenda and is...

A national adult care model must be about the mutual bond between local people and places

John Copps

Jun 29, 2020
4 min

A national adult care model must be about the mutual bond between local people and places

John Copps argues that adult social care must be about the bond between local people and places. This article was originally published on...

Case study: Department for Digital, Media and Sport – Mutual Support Programme 2

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Mar 31, 2020
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Case study: Department for Digital, Media and Sport – Mutual Support Programme 2

Client: Department for Digital, Media and Sport – Mutual Support Programme 2 (MSP2) Date: Dec 2017 – March 2020 Challenges faced by the...

John Copps

Feb 7, 2020
3 min

In praise of local government

Maligning local government will get us nowhere, even if it is our democratic right to do so. Often maligned and little-understood, they...

Only devolution can protect public services from years of Brexit disruption

Andrew Laird

Jul 28, 2019
3 min

Only devolution can protect public services from years of Brexit disruption

The new Prime Minister made his first policy speech in Manchester on the 27th July and the major theme was supporting the further...

Are we looking at 10 years of disruption for local services?

Andrew Laird

May 14, 2019
3 min

Are we looking at 10 years of disruption for local services?

MV’s Andrew Laird argues that central government needs to prioritise restarting the drive for devolution to protect local services from...

A bow to the inevitable, a dose of common sense & a streak of the radical – the NHS Long Term Plan

John Copps

Jan 11, 2019
4 min

A bow to the inevitable, a dose of common sense & a streak of the radical – the NHS Long Term Plan

NHS ten year plan. Originally due in the autumn, it picks up the torch from the 2014 Five Year Forward View and explains how the NHS will...

End of austerity? Not yet for public services

Andrew Laird

Oct 31, 2018
3 min

End of austerity? Not yet for public services

MV’s Andrew Laird argues that we must bring public services closer together to keep future demand under control. This week, the...

More Government funding available to support new delivery models

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Jun 10, 2018
1 min

More Government funding available to support new delivery models

Tracey Crouch – Minister for Sport and Civil Society has announced a further £1 million in funding for the Mutuals Support Programme...

Case study: Department of Education - Sandwell Children's Social Care

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Apr 30, 2018
3 min

Case study: Department of Education - Sandwell Children's Social Care

Client: Department for Education – Due diligence in support of the development of Sandwell CSC Trust Date: October 2016 – April 2018...

MV playing a leading role in Government drive for more Public Service Mutuals

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Jan 15, 2018
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MV playing a leading role in Government drive for more Public Service Mutuals

Mutual Ventures are delighted to be playing a leading role on two important central government public service reform programmes. DCMS...

MV wins place on prestigious government framework as part of The BEAM Consortium

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Jan 3, 2018
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MV wins place on prestigious government framework as part of The BEAM Consortium

MV is delighted to announce that it has that it has won a place on the Crown Commercial Services’ Management Consultancy Framework, as...

What will 2018 have in store for public services?

John Copps

Dec 14, 2017
3 min

What will 2018 have in store for public services?

If turmoil is the new mode of twenty-first century politics, then 2017 didn’t disappoint. It was tumultuous to say the least and there...

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