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With increasing pressure on budgets more and more authorities are looking at alternative models for delivering services – whether outsourcing, trading companies or staff-led mutuals. The possible advantages are clear – done properly alternative models can reduce costs and improve performance – but so are the disadvantages – if not done properly authorities can end up committed to contracting for inflexible service models that do not meet local need. Much attention is focused on the form and structure of alternative models and we can help with this (alongside our legal partners Browne Jacobson) but there are fundamental question that authorities need to think through – what is the business proposition, is it viable, is it scalable, does it meet local needs? Frank Curran 07515 875381
frank.curran@redquadrant.com
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