Commercialisation

• 2018 - the year things began to change

  Geed up by a spirit of entrepreneurialism, councils up and down the land were busy exploring new ways to respond to their communities in 2018.

  

• Local authorities turning to commercialisation to escape austerity

  Councils are increasingly turning to commercialisation to escape austerity, a business model that has brought added moral dilemmas, report finds.

  

• PAC: Whitehall ‘complacent’ over council commercial ventures

  Central government ‘must do more’ to understand local authority finances and their impact on taxpayers, Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee has claimed.

  

• Liverpool Council takes control of markets for £1

  Liverpool City Council has taken control of all market operations in the city for a pound.

  

• Fear putting councils off commercialisation, report says

  Local authority leaders are open to commercialisation but are held back by fear and lack of experience, new report finds.