A4e is now a mentor to public sector organisations wishing to become mutuals or other forms of social enterprise.  A4e was named as one of the new mentors to offer their support to fledgling public service mutuals when Francis Maude, Cabinet Office Minister, launched the second wave of mutual pathfinders on a visit to Swindon on 2 February.

Through its mentoring role, A4e and A4e Insight will be combining their resources, enabling us to exploit many years’ experience as both consultants to the public sector and front-line providers of public services.  Further details of A4e Insight’s support to mutualisation cam be found here.

Commenting on the announcement, Market Lovell, Executive Chairman of A4e said:

“Today’s announcement is a welcome step in the further development of mutuals within our public services.  Employee-led organisations in all parts of the public sector bring fresh, innovative models that offer the chance to greatly improve service delivery.

“A4e are delighted to take up this opportunity to mentor organisations seeking mutualisation.  As the Government rightly recognises, these initiatives will need support and advice from a range of partners if they are to be viable and successful.

“A4e have a strong track record of working closely with partners to delivering a range of high quality and innovative front-line public services.  Using this experience, we will provide practical support to groups in order to help establish sustainable and functional enterprises.

“This is a challenging time for those working in the public sector.  Yet, mutualisation provides a crucial opportunity to improve the services they deliver to the public.  As a company with a dedicated social purpose, A4e stands ready to help and support them in turning this opportunity into a reality.”

A4e Insight has been selected as a potential supplier of consultancy services to the BBC under the Corporation’s new consultancy framework agreement, which comes into effect on 1 April 2010.

A4e Insight has been selected as a supplier under Lot 2 of the framework, which covers Strategy consultancy.

This follows A4e Insight’s appointment late last year as a framework supplier to the Personal Accounts Delivery Authority, where we have been selected as a potential supplier of secondary market research services.

A4e Insight would like to congratulate Sovereign Capital on the successful completion of its acquisition of London Care plc, in a transaction for which A4e Insight provided commercial due diligence. London Care is a leading provider of domiciliary care services in London, the South East of England and the West Midlands

Our commercial due diligence included detailed analysis of the social and domiciliary care macro-market and its prospects to 2014, competitor analysis, and a detailed assessment of London Care’s business plan forecasts.