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Why working on Public Consultations is a brilliant start for a career in Public Affairs

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Rhion Jones reflects on lessons learnt by exposing young graduates to the work of the Consultation Institute. A caricature criticism of politics in recent years is that too many politicians have never done a ‘proper job’ and have somehow drifted into Parliament through various think-tanks, research bodies and working for political parties. It remains a […]

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Fake News, Anti-Social Media and how to deal with it. Or is consultation doomed?

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Two very important aspects of meaningful consultation are that it involves a dialogue and is a genuine process. Unfortunately, what we’ve learned about social media in the last year or so is that it is designed to do almost the opposite to public debates. We understand more than before that social media algorithms encourage the

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FREE Event (Belfast): ‘Best Practice Consultation – raising standards across these islands’

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Stratagem, in partnership with The Consultation Institute and in association with AECOM, is hosting ‘Best Practice Consultation – raising standards across these islands’. This free morning event will bring together practitioners and stakeholders in the consultation arena, aiming to foster discussion on the current best practice standards and look towards the best way forward for future

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How does purdah work for government departments during a consultation?

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Government departments are now in purdah. For most of them this means that many of their on-going consultations should go ahead but no new public consultations should be launched. Earlier today the Department for Transport announced that they had cancelled five remaining public meetings as part of their consultation on the South Eastern rail franchise,

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A manifesto commitment to better public engagement?

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Rhion Jones proposes an Office of Public Consultation Manifesto-writers will be busy this weekend. If they follow previous form, they will commit to consult on many of their proposals that are – shall we say – a little unfinished. They will also probably make general noises about more transparent Government, and use words like ‘listen’

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Health Select Committee launches inquiry into STPs

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Earlier this week we received word that the House of Commons’ Select Committee on Health had launched an inquiry in the NHS Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs). This news got snowed under following NHS England’s ‘Next Steps’ report which we commented on earlier but it is very important it gets the attention it deserves. It

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Referring consultations to the Health Secretary: what actually happens?

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The tension in relationships between councillors and health commissioners is never more evident than in the run up to local elections. We can hardly blame politicians for acting politically, so it’s no surprise that as elections approach in England we see a flurry of calls for local health scrutiny committees to refer commissioners’ decisions for

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