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When my business Angels Houskeeping was in the pre-start up stages I’d never heard of social enterprise but I’d had enough after years in a purely commercial environment and the voluntary sector (where I had escaped to) hugely frustrated me with its inefficiencies and endless funded projects that had limited impact. Here was an opportunity to combine business principles with services beneficial to the community and the absolute key to it for me was sustainability. Social business, like any...

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Despite the commitment to public sector reform from all political ­parties, it is still unclear which ideas will dominate as we reshape public services in the coming decade. There are calls for locally-based, co-produced and self-directed public services, but there is an easier approach to reform that is much further advanced: super-commissioning, or the aggregation of different workstreams and small contracts into ever-larger contracts for high-volume services, delivered mostly by big natio...

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Yesterday's OECD report put the UK firmly in the bottom third of countries with super fast broadband.  While other countries are developing fibre optic based networks with government investment, predicated on savings in public service delivery, the UK government has yet to commit serious funding in this respect.  The OECD asserts that top slicing 1% off budgets in health and education. At Cybermoor, we have secured NHS funding for delivery of health services via broadband, such as tel...

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 Its Social Enterprise Eve at P3 !!! Its No 10 tomorrow for the SE reception hosted by the PM himself I'm polishing the elevator pitch as I write: MK ' why don't we commission more Social Enterprise services that pull systems , organisations, professions, agencies, departments together for example, across the midlands and in London my organiastion  P3 provides a range of preventative services for socially excluded people across the spectrum of need - f...

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