Brent Council Turns Cooperative

With little fanfare, Brent has become a Cooperative Council, that is part of the Co-operative Councils' Innovation Network, a group of Councils that seek to apply Cooperative principles to Council affairs.  The CCIN states these principles as:

Co-operatives are based on the values of self-help, self-responsibility, democracy, equality, equity and solidarity.  In the tradition of their founders, co-operative members believe in the ethical values of honesty, openness, social responsibility and caring for others.

As Chair of the Brent & Harrow Cooperative Party, I obviously welcome the Councils' conversion, and I shall be fascinated to see how these principles are brought into practice.