They proved a success for housing. Now local authorities are setting up Almos for leisure facilities, social care and child services
Councils that set up arm's length management organisations (Almos) to run their housing have spent much of the past decade debating whether they would be worth keeping once the structure no longer channels through government funding.
Nine have already been wound up, and others may not survive much longer. Yet elsewhere in local government the Almo is enjoying a second lease of life, as councils under pressure to save money seek an alternative to outsourcing.
