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Finding co-op solutions to the health and social care crisis

With the sector coming under increasing pressure, can the co-op model deliver better results?Examples from the…

Co-op College to provide training for new CCIN members

The programme will be developed with input from councils during an eight-week consultation and design period

After Labour’s defeat, does the co-op council model show a route to renewal?

'Giving power back to localities would make all the difference ... We need people to have…

‘Fire the bosses’: Platform co-ops set out their radical stall

From data sharing as a new co-op principle to ways to organise street workers, the Who…

What has the Preston model achieved so far

With community wealth building on the agenda at the Co-op Party and CCIN conferences, here is…

‘Co-ops should take community wealth building into the private sphere’

'The fundamental feature of all economies is wealth. Who has it, where does it go, how…

Councils and co-ops: are CDBs the missing link?

Mark Simmonds from Co-op Culture and Principle 6 led the session at the Co-op Councils Innovation…

Co-op councils meet to discuss ways to embed their values into communities

'We need politics that is more open, more accountable and directly responsive to the people that…

How do we build co-operative places? CCIN prepares for national conference

'As people get more wary and sceptical of mainline politics, they do understand that if you…

How to grow the co-operative model of business

Jo Platt MP encourages submissions to the Greater Manchester Co-operative Commission consultation

Book review: How do we give economic power to the people?

'There’s a role for everyone in nourishing this potential next system'

Claire McCarthy looks back on her time at the helm of the Co-op Party

'I’ve been inspired by some of the exciting innovations taking place at local government level ...…