Craig Dearden-Phillips

Yesterday was my last day as a County Councillor. I was replaced by a Conservative who beat a former Tory Independent by a whisker with  UKI...

This week 'Union News' published a story about a flagship social enterprise spin-out called Care Plus which operates health and soci...

Will there be some kind of tipping point for social enterprise in UK local government?  So far we are in the Innovator / Early Adapter stag...

Have you ever noticed that most social entrepreneurs are either very young or relatively old?  Not that many in the middle (say 35-50)? ...

Only the deluded would fail to  recognise that the public and social sectors have hit some sticky limits in moving the dial on the worlds...

Social enterprise is the only real future for public services.  The challenge at the moment is that hardly anyone in the public sector under...

This week the Labour MP for Rochdale, Simon Danczuk, launched a full-frontal on Cabinet Secretary Francis Maude, telling him that the Gove...

So where is the mutuals agenda today?   Last week I heard a trio of speakers, each offering a perspective, among them historian Charlie Catt...

Today, Tory health Minister Anna Soubry is all over the papers for coming out in favour of assisted suicide. At last, I found myself shout...

Before I say a single word more I want to put on record my praise for all of those involved in founding and growing the Big Issue:  John Bir...

Like a lot of people in my generation, I went to university at a time when it was seen as being, without any doubt, the right path for any b...

The other week I watched a depressing programme about the riots of 2011.  Told from the 'rioters' perspective, it opened up the ...