Is the Public Services (Social Value) Act a no go for small contracts?
Allison Ogden-Newton fears that social enterprises with local knowledge will lose out to larger deliverers that can achieve scale
Will the Social Value Act favour larger organisations? Photograph: Corbis Super RF/Alamy
The government's target of enabling over one million former public sector staff to achieve mutual status by 2015 echoes the aspirations of many in the public sector who want to carry on doing the job they love and are interested in more independence – but only if the deal is right. For them, the choice between
