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Britain prepares for BREXIT – The role of Public Consultation

Article, Briefing Note, Briefing Paper / Rhion Jones

This paper has been written for policy-makers and officials working in the civil service. It will also be relevant to politicians, academics and public engagement professionals working in the public, private or voluntary/community sectors. It considers how public and/or stakeholder consultation can work in the febrile policy environment that follows the UK’s decision to leave […]

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Counting to Ten – Is consultation at its most valuable when providing a breathing space

Article, Tuesday Topic / Rhion Jones

The hurly-burly of politics is often, in reality, a somewhat remote process. Journalists eager to break tomorrow’s story rather than probe and assess yesterday’s can whip up a synthetic excitement in what they admit is the ‘Westminster Village’. And the rest of us just get on with our lives. Just occasionally, however, democracies throw up astonishingly fast-moving dramas. They are

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Bus Services Bill – Briefing

Leave a Comment / Article, Briefing Note / Mike Bartram

Background The Bus Services Bill was introduced into Parliament last month. Despite generating considerably more public transport journeys than any other mode, governments rarely pay too much attention to buses. This is the first significant piece of new legislation on buses since John Prescott’s Transport Act sixteen years ago and is thus deserving of our

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Should we ask the question? – The most important question is whether or not to ask in the first place?

Article, Tuesday Topic / Rhion Jones

We have always regarded a referendum as a form of a consultation – and last week’s excitement illustrated many of the pitfalls familiar to public engagement practitioners. The in/out question has many critics – unsurprisingly mostly from the losing side. But experts have known for years that asking people a binary question is crude, and that is why they are often described

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Consultation with ‘Appointed Voices’ – Phasing out ‘Parent Governors’ might signal the end of a particular form of consultation.

Leave a Comment / Article, Tuesday Topic / Rhion Jones

Commentators had predicted for a while that the Government was intent on further reducing – if not eliminating – the role of local authorities in running schools. So it was no great surprise when the Education Secretary, Nicky Morgan announced their wholesale conversion into academies. What was unexpected, though, was dropping the requirement for Parent

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Majority Vote – A Referendum is only one form of decision-making and there are other good ideas around!

Knowing what’s true … – The EU referendum highlights robust arguments about the ‘facts’ of the situation – implications for consultation professionals.

Leave a Comment / Article, Tuesday Topic / Rhion Jones

A few years ago, IPSOS-MORI started publishing comparisons between various statistics of social or political significance and people’s perceptions of the same numbers; they repeated the exercise in many countries. In Britain, as in other countries, there are substantial differences, and the research – called The Perils of Perception is frequently cited by those who

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Publish – or be damned! – Two disturbing cases of reticence to publish – so time to stand up for a key principle.

Leave a Comment / Article, Tuesday Topic / Rhion Jones

Two weeks ago, the BBC carried the news that the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales had decided that it could not reveal the data emerging from the consultation it has conducted on the subject of sexual ethics. To add spice to the Today programme’s story, it was revealed that the Church in Germany

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Least worst – When a consultation explores unpopular options

Leave a Comment / Article, Tuesday Topic / Rhion Jones

If you’ve worked in the UK steel industry and are either a pensioner or expect to become one, these are troubling times. Last week, the Government published on one of the more impressive consultations we have seen in recent months, and sought our views on ways to reduce the pension fund’s deficit and thereby make

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Structures and Scrutiny – A new Queen’s Speech – and the need to remember the importance of scrutiny.

Leave a Comment / Article, Tuesday Topic / Rhion Jones

The ritual State opening of Parliament obliges Her Majesty to announce the Government’s programme through the traditional Queen’s Speech. The speculation this year has been that it will focus on such issues as Prisons Reform, Adoption, unmanned drones and driverless cars! The reality is that the processes of public administration continue much the same, whilst

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Britain prepares for BREXIT – The role of Public Consultation

Counting to Ten – Is consultation at its most valuable when providing a breathing space

Bus Services Bill – Briefing

Should we ask the question? – The most important question is whether or not to ask in the first place?

Majority Vote – A Referendum is only one form of decision-making and there are other good ideas around!

Knowing what’s true … – The EU referendum highlights robust arguments about the ‘facts’ of the situation – implications for consultation professionals.

Publish – or be damned! – Two disturbing cases of reticence to publish – so time to stand up for a key principle.

Least worst – When a consultation explores unpopular options

Structures and Scrutiny – A new Queen’s Speech – and the need to remember the importance of scrutiny.

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