Within hours of the poignant celebrations in Liverpool as the Hillsborough families marked the Inquest verdict, and called for ‘Justice’, the Chief Constable of South Yorkshire Police was suspended. This was not directly related to the tragic events of 27 years ago. Nor was it about the shameful cover-up. The reality is that Peter Crampton […]
The National Audit Office (NAO) produced an important Report last week – assessing the progress made on English devolution. It highlights the fact that the DCLG’s Cities and Local Growth Unit now has 155 staff masterminding the 10 devolution deals already struck … and the 34 proposals submitted by English Councils last September. It raises
The Institute’s response to the National Audit Office’s report on Devolution Read More »
Getting ready to deliver an Executive Briefing tomorrow, we have today finished our line-by-line look at the new 2015 version of this important Guide – it matters to many of my LinkedIn colleagues and members of the Consultation Institute. Its title is “Planning, assuring and delivering service change for patients” It reinforces the need for
New NHS England Guideline update on Service changes Read More »
Whilst political journalists and commentators of every hue enjoy pouring over the entrails of the weekend’s dramatic political developments, this Tuesday Topic looks at just one specialist aspect of the story. Leaving aside the merits of the case for changing Personal Independence Payments to disabled people, was the consultation leading to the Government’s recent announcement
The Consultation Institute reports that the recent consultation on Personal Independence Payments (PIP) by the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) was significantly flawed. In this video, Rhion Jones, Programme Director and Founder, explains the findings. We have also released a Tuesday Topic on this Subject please click here to download.
What did the DWP get wrong? Read More »
Hands up everyone. Who among you has EVER responded to a European Union consultation? As the Referendum debate rages, a familiar, oft-repeated allegation is that European institutions remain remote and opaque. Brussels has long been characterised – at least by large chunks of the UK media – as an overbearing bureaucratic machine, unresponsive to any
Ever since the Institute began, the first thing taught to members and supporters is the mantra Consultation is not a Vote. Indeed, it was the theme of the first ever Tuesday Topic. But, of course, there are times when major decisions only feel fair and democratic if a Referendum is held; and supporters of direct
One of the Institute’s most active members recently commissioned us to prepare an Update for those of its staff who attended the Law of Consultation training course in 2013. Elizabeth Gammell and Rhion Jones will deliver a two-hour update on Friday, and they have just spent some time taking stock. In all, they have reviewed
Consultation-related Judicial Reviews – mid-year Update Read More »
As most of you will know, tCI has been working closely together with the Chinese government on online participation/consultation in policy-making. In the Summer of 2014 a delegation of the Chinese State Council for Legislative Affairs paid us a visit at our HQ in Biggleswade where we introduced them to the public consultation standards and
Speaking in Brussels about Open Legislation Read More »
In 2012, the Coalition Government took us all by surprise and tore up the 2008 Code of Practice on consultations and replaced them with a hastily-drafted set of Principles. Practitioners huffed and puffed; in the Institute we produced a rather heavyweight commentary which we published as a Briefing Paper. Forgive us for having a sense
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