Emma Back of the Equal Care Coop for Cooperative Social Care

Video via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QaJFHrFG7E

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"Here I talk with Emma Back, one of the founders of the Equal Care Co-op, in Halifax, Yorkshire. Apart from looking at ownership, decision-making and payments, they are constantly investigating ways to make life better for care providers, care users and their families.

There are some very interesting aspects to the Equal Care Co-op, for example:

• The members of the co-op include care providers (including volunteers), care users (supported people), advocate members (family and friends of supported people), plus investor members– anyone who has a stake in the outcome of the work of the co-op.

• Sociocratic decision-making.

• An internal payments system that could be described as a cross between mutual credit, timebanking, tokenising, and recognition of informal labour, including emotional labour and care work.

• There are some interesting facets of their operations, such as their ‘Teams’, that hugely benefit care users."

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Transcript via https://www.lowimpact.org/posts/co-operative-social-care-with-sociocracy-and-mutual-credit-emma-back-of-the-equal-care-co-op