Serving Community Enterprise

July 2013 Blog Posts (2)

A Service Code for CICs?

I'm working on an form of the Public Service Code, adapting it for my CIC. Does anyone have any comments?:

This CIC subscribes to a form of the Public Service Code adapted for a CIC. Its Directors and Officers will:

Observe at all times the ethical standards expected of public servants, having regard to the Seven Principles of Public Life

Make themselves accountable to the CIC Regulator and through other means for their policies and performance, with…

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Added by Simon Odell on July 25, 2013 at 11:30 — No Comments

CIC's are winning Public Sector Contracts

Over the last few months I have worked with a couple of CIC's who are now either safely competing on frameworks with local councils or receiving requests for quotes linked to local public sector services.

We have been able to use three key features of legislation to best advantage:

1. Localism Act - a great tool for specifying benefit to the economy and the supplychain.

2. Public Services 2012 - this has been an excellent mechanism for preventing LA's from…

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Added by Mark Trotter on July 8, 2013 at 18:33 — 3 Comments