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Kincluny: Scotland’s first sustainable village

Kincluny is aiming to be Scotland’s first sustainable village. But its notion of community sustainability ...

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Is it time for the Social Enterprise Mark Company to become a mutual?

With 450 SEM holders, there is now a critical mass of organisations and supporters that ...

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Decentralisation won’t bring power to the people

All of this could mean that the transference of power away from institutions of local ...

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We need to talk about conflict

We need to get better at recognising, naming and dealing with tension, especially over the ...

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Whether you’re co-op or Big Society – involving communities is key

Restructuring is occurring at the local level and decisions made in the coming years will ...

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Good with local services?

With public services being increasingly marketised, a group of local authorities is looking to the ...

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The end of regeneration is just the beginning

If policy-makers and practitioners cling on to the old model in the vain hope of ...

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Open door policy

With such examples of clear methods of how plurality of public service can lead to ...

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The mutual trading platform

This is Regather, a trading co-operative which aims to mutualise a chunk of Sheffield’s local ...

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European co-ops: A ‘reality check’ for UK public service vision

David Cameron has cited Swedish and Spanish co-operative schools as models for public service mutuals ...