Organisations in Wales are taking a strategic lead in the UK in developing social co-operatives.

Most Italian social co-operatives have fewer than 30 worker-owners and less than 100 other stakeholder members.

What makes social co-operatives unique is that they celebrate and prove that small is beautiful, and do so through dynamic forms of democracy.

The recommendations in our report can help frame a national strategy for social co-operatives to thrive across Britain and flourish in the years ahead.

This week saw the launch of the UK and Wales co-operatives research report Social Co-operatives, a Democratic Co-Production Agenda for Care Services in the UK.