With the first round of bidding for the Levelling Up Fund now closed, now is the time to start planning for Round Two and beyond. Details...

Mutual Ventures is delighted to be working with the Welsh Cooperative Centre to offer support to Welsh Councils bidding for funding to...

The government has published details of its £150m Community Ownership Fund, designed to support local people to save local community...

Delivery of policy always relies on the skills, knowledge and cooperation of different levels of government – usually Departments at the...

John Copps introduces Mutual Ventures' work to look at what makes successful programmes across central and local government. With...

Andrew Laird invites local authorities to get in touch to discuss future bids to the Levelling Up Fund. The time has passed for starting...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...