Making a positive difference to public services

The UK is home to a growing number of co-operative and employee owned providers in education, health, social care, transport, utilities, leisure, housing, environmental services, child care and other public services.

Recent reports suggest that co-operative and employee owned business models can bring enhanced benefits to the providers and users of public services, including:

• Increased employee, user and community engagement 
• More efficient and sustainable service delivery with better outcomes 
• Improved responsiveness to customer needs
• Wider distribution of risk and reward