The Cabinet Office’s Mutuals Support Programme (“the MSP”) has been an ambitious initiative to support disruptive innovators in public services.
Launched soon after the formation of the Coalition Government, the MSP helps frontline service providers to spin-out of public sector control to form new employee-driven businesses.
In 2011 Francis Maude MP spoke of an aspiration to have one million public servants working in this type of organisation by 2015. With only six months until the General Election, how much progress has been made?
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