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
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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
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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
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,
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