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Failure to consult Councils a key argument in today’s ‘Help Refugees’ Court challenge

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Rhion Jones comments: “The Dubs amendment controversy goes to the High Court. Following the Home Secretary’s announcement that the number of unaccompanied refugee children will be lower than expected, attention switches to the extent of consultation with local authorities. As viewers of BBC Question Time might have seen last night, the Government argued that local authorities […]

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What do a GP consultation and a public consultation have in common?

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Regular listeners to Radio 4’s TODAY programme on Tuesday morning may have heard an interview with Professor Helen Stokes Lampard of The Royal College of General Practitioners. She claimed that the UK’s standard ten minute slots for GP consultations is among the shortest in Europe, and that this affects the quality of the primary care

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Infrastructure Planners hear our analysis of post-truth public consultations

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Yesterday I spoke to 120 planning/development specialists at Waterfront’s annual Infrastructure Planning Forum. I used it to share the Institute’s analysis that there is a sea-change in the public’s view of participation and engagement. A world of post-truth, fake news and anti-establishment sentiment poses a real threat to evidence-based policy-making. So much so that we

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Gatwick act on noise in a HUGE Airport Consultation week!

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Tuesday I spent at Gatwick’s Noise Management Board Public Meeting in a week that sees two massive aviation consultations launched – see here & here –  but it’s all about Heathrow’s 3rd runway being the Government’s preferred option for SE expansion and a complementary UK airspace policy review, with  a special focus on noise and

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Environmental Impact Assessments and Public Consultation in a Post-Brexit Climate

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Following the Brexit result from the European Referendum (EU) in June 2016, the United Kingdom (UK) has been plunged into a period of uncertainty. Article 50, which Prime Minister Theresa May looks set to invoke at the end of March 2017, will trigger the two-year leave process from the EU, however, many concerns have been aired

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The defeat of public engagement in 2016 – what’s next?

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Later this week, Donald Trump will be inaugurated as the 45th US President after a very divisive and heated campaign. Earlier this week, Theresa May delivered her long-awaited Brexit speech which has divided Britain through and through; leaving scars that might take years to heal. 2016 has been an intense year for a lot of

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Department for Education’s latest consultation fails the best practice test

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Yet another consultation that isn’t good enough! Not everyone has heard of the Institute for Apprenticeships. In time, perhaps we will. That is because it will have important role to play in the Government’s high-profile ambition of 3 million new apprenticeships by 2020. You might therefore expect that the way in which this new public

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