Thirty years ago, an American management consultant from McKinsey became rich and famous when he wrote a series of best-selling business books, starting with In Search of Excellence. His name was Tom Peters, and he convinced a lot of people – though in later life his reputation has been sullied by allegations that some of […]
Lambeth Council has just lost a Judicial Review in a case that holds lessons for many of us involved with pubic consultations. The story is about a social housing development called Cressingham Gardens, which is felt to be showing its age, fifty years after being built in the 1960s. Much of it is still social
Over the weekend, the Leader of the Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn wrote to party members to ‘consult’ them about their opinions on the difficult issue of whether or not the UK should conduct air strikes against the Daesh (ISIS) in Syria.
Oh No it isn’t! Well, just for once, let’s admit that many public consultations have about them the sense of a mild farce – if not a classic English pantomime. Like the annual winter theatricals, we have plenty of advance notice for the 12-week season during which the pantomime plays. True, Government Principles now allow
Consultations have been organised for years. True, a lot of expertise has haemorrhaged away through successive redundancies and reorganisations, but Public services in the UK employ thousands of competent people with extensive experience of organising public engagement and consultations. So it is a bit of a puzzle why so many exercises still run into difficulties,
Introduction In a world of ever decreasing budgets and deep cuts to core services, “Devolution” is seemingly the biggest opportunity for local government. Local government is right to seek greater powers as well as demanding adequate resources because people still need esse Local authorities have faced a tough time since the financial crash of 2007/08.
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Organising a public consultation on any significant scale requires project management skills. It is a project, with the need to co-ordinate a range of different activities, both sequentially or in parallel – and with all the inter-relationships. There’s a need to acquire resources and deploy them properly. There are sensitive political and timing considerations, and
Ever since Gladstone was called an ‘old man in a hurry’, there has been scepticism of politicians moving too quickly and overlooking the benefits of consultation in their anxiety to change things quickly. Anyone who heard Professor Anthony King at our recent Conference would have heard him criticise our pattern of transient Ministers – and,
Few people now doubt that one of the biggest challenges facing our society is the need to develop a care system that is fit-for-purpose in the twenty-first century. Integrating Health and Social care is seen as the key policy, and we are witnessing the beginnings of the organisational and cultural transformation that’s needed if the
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Few people now doubt that one of the biggest challenges facing our society is the need to develop a care system that is fit-for-purpose in the twenty-first century. Integrating Health and Social care is seen as the key policy, and we are witnessing the beginnings of the organisational and cultural transformation that’s needed if the
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