Mutuals

The latest attack on the government by Labour’s rejuvenated shadow civil society team concerns its programme on mutuals – the £10m drive launched by Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude to prompt a million public sector workers to spin out as mutuals or cooperatives by 2015. Here we group the key Third Sector analyses and news stories on the subject, with a selection of commentaries below.

Interview: Julian Le Grand

21 June 2011

The man tasked with making the mutuals work believes labour-intensive services will be most suited to control by staff

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The mixed fortunes of the first spin-outs

Twenty-one organisations are in the government's pathfinder programme for mutuals. David Ainsworth looks at their progress and interviews the chair of the Mutuals Taskforce

Case Study: Inclusion Healthcare

Jane Gray, director of nursing and development at the mutual, talks about her experience turning the organisation into a social enterprise

Case study: Salvere CIC

The community interest company, which became a mutual in 2010, was named as one of the government's pathfinders

Craig Dearden-Phillips: Cry freedom - no third sector convert wants to return to the public domain Old-style public services will sooner or later run out of road and the third sector has to be part of the solution to the problem, says our columnist

Interview: Gareth Thomas The new shadow civil society minister tells John Plummer why he thinks the sector needs more protection from cuts

Interview: Nick Hurd Programmes and initiatives for the voluntary sector have multiplied since last year's Tory gathering focused on the big society. Kaye Wiggins asks the Minister for Civil Society about his priorities and John Plummer looks at the policy details

Editorial: Mutualisation is delicately poised There is tension in the government about whether to push ahead rapidly with public service reform, including mutualisation, says Stephen Cook

Interview: Lord Glasman The adviser to Ed Miliband says the last government funded the sector well but charities became distant from communities

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