Cobbetts wants to offer its experience of setting up new co-operative and mutual businesses to people in the public sector faced with the threat posed by the present financial climate and the opportunity presented by the coalition agreement.

We believe that there are millions of public sector workers who could work together in new and better ways.

If you are considering doing something, or think that people you work with should consider doing something, the following are the important first questions:

• Is the service one which people need and will continue to need in the long term?
• Can the service be improved if staff had a stake in the business? Would it make sense to engage service users in shaping the services they need?
• Is there someone who is prepared to take the lead in setting up the new business?

If the answer to these questions is yes, then you should consider a new employee led business as an option. Speak to the lawyers at Cobbetts as we offer strategic planning services as well as being a full service law firm.

We make no charge for a preliminary discussion and our approach to fees for this work is that services have to pay for themselves in savings identified in the new structure.

No law firm has more experience of establishing new co-operative and mutual structures and no business is more committed to promoting and supporting new ways of delivering public services.