House of Commons - Mutual and co-operative approaches to delivering local services - Communities and Local Government Committee

Communities and Local Government Committee - Fifth Report
Mutual and co-operative approaches to delivering local services

Here you can browse the report together with the Proceedings of the Committee. The published report was ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 21 November 2012.

Contents

2 Co-operative models

The co-operative and mutual concepts

A short history

Mutuals and co-operatives delivering services in the public sector

Mutual and co-operative models being used by local authorities

Employee-owned mutuals or co-operatives

Two-way and multiple stakeholder models

Multi-way models

The Lambeth model—co-production

3 The evidence for co-operative and mutual approaches

The benefits of mutuals and co-operatives

Evidence of benefits

4 The Government's role

The Right to Challenge

Public Services (Social Value) Act 2012

Mutuals Information Service and Support Programme

The Mutuals Taskforce

Cross-departmental working

Regulation

5 Barriers to co-operatives and mutuals

Finance

Taxation

Procurement

Public Services (Social Value) Act 2012

Cultural barriers

6 Risks of using co-operatives and mutuals

Accountability

Local engagement

Employees

Service Fragmentation

Asset loss

7 Conclusion

Conclusions and recommendations

Formal Minutes

Witnesses

List of printed written evidence

List of Reports from the Committee during the current Parliament

Oral and Written Evidence

Wednesday 16 May 2012

Wednesday 21 May 2012

Monday 11 June 2012

Monday 18 June 2012

Monday 10 September 2012

Written Evidence