One of my colleagues bumped into a bidwriter for a fellow organisation at a DWP briefing on social enterprise. He asked a question at the briefing: “If you have got social enterprises who are developing their own projects and they are putting a lot of time and effort into developing a product or service, would you fund that, if the person was self-employed?” They weren’t sure of the answer, which was slightly alarming. If the DWP is trying to set up social enterprises they should understand the landscape a bit better than they seem to. Broadly the initiative has gone down very well in the sector, though. It’s been received as a very impressive turnaround for the government after a wake-up call on entrepreneurship in the press.
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