How to step out : your guide to leading a mutual or social enterprise spin-out from the public sector / Craig Dearden-Phillips with Mark Griffiths

This book is for those people in the UK public sector who have been thinking about leading a new public sector social enterprise or mutual - but so far haven't taken the plunge. This is a practical handbook for people in the public sector who want to find a new way to express public sector values. This is also very much a book for those in public services charged with finding the best services on which to spend public money. The book will stimulate not only direct procurement from this kind of provider - but also encourage commissioners inside public services to look at the residual services provided in-house and examine their potential to be commissioned as social enterprises, mutuals or joint venture partnerships. This book is, in part, making a case for a different future by laying out a different approach - that of the spun-out, or stepped-out public service.