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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The Government has launched a large number of consultations this summer. But probably the most high-profile, and politically contentious, will have been the Department of Culture, Media and Sport’s (DCMS) consultation on the BBC Charter Review. This is currently scheduled for 2016 and anyone who wades through the 83 pages will risk being overwhelmed by
Two years ago, at the Institute’s first Conference, we invited Lord Justice Sedley to talk about the Gunning Principles – a set of rules for public consultations that have assured him a lasting position in the history of the law of consultation. He first propounded the rules (they were first known as the Sedley propositions)
Just imagine. A major sporting event! One team, winning for much of the match, finds itself behind with only two minutes to go. It wins a penalty. Converting a penalty secures an honourable draw. The bolder option is to kick for position and the chance of outright victory if a subsequent score comes about. The
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