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Goodbye tick-box; hello your honour! – Will the new Cabinet Office Consultation Principles’ attempt to end the tick-box habit result in a bigger role for the Courts?

Leave a Comment / Article, Tuesday Topic / Rhion Jones

The infamous tick-box gets the blame for a lot. In the world of consultation, it is a regular refrain, with two different meanings. One is the criticism that the consultation isn’t a really serious attempt to listen at all – the consultor is just ‘going through the motions’, because the organisation is expected to undertake […]

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Hillsborough – would elected Police Commissioners have helped? – Is this a good reason to vote on 15th November?

Leave a Comment / Article, Tuesday Topic / Rhion Jones

Just when we thought that elections for Police Commissioners were going to be the biggest non-event ever, the Hillsborough cover-up gives us all a reason to take them seriously. Or does it? Had we had elected Commissioners, of the kind now planned, in place over the last 23 years, would it either have prevented the

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We've finished listening! – Does social media mark the increasing irrelevance of consultation timescales?

Leave a Comment / Article, Tuesday Topic / Rhion Jones

We all know the traditional model of consultation. A document is launched, a period of time is set and consultees have until the published end-date to respond, answer whatever questions are asked or make their submissions so that the decision-makers can take these views into account. We have a ‘twelve-week rule’ – except it isn’t

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Whitehall's new Consultation principles – First reactions to the slimline replacement for the HM Government Code of Practice (2008)

Leave a Comment / Article, Tuesday Topic / Rhion Jones

This is the fourth attempt (over 13 years) to prescribe a set of rules for Government departments and other public bodies to conduct public and stakeholder consultations. And in many ways it is the most interesting, for it needs to cope with a very different world, and meet the admirable goal of being more succinct,

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The thin end of the wedge – Public consultations in an age of uncertainty

Leave a Comment / Article, Tuesday Topic / Rhion Jones

Public service planners are facing a very awkward dilemma. If they adopt an optimistic view of available public expenditure – and assume a slow return to economic growth, they can limit proposed changes to public services to those that are necessary to balance the books over the medium term. Just enough cuts to get us

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Questionable tactics – Using consultation to get agreement for pre-determined decisions!

Leave a Comment / Article, Tuesday Topic / Rhion Jones

Public consultations are beginning to play a rather different role in some organisations. Traditionally, they have been used to inform policy-makers who need to take account of a range of opinions before arriving at their conclusions. Equally they have helped public bodies handle important debates where difficult decisions have to be taken. We know they

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Consultation’s role in policy-making – Policy development has never been more challenging

Leave a Comment / Article, Tuesday Topic / Rhion Jones

Those of us deeply involved with public consultations on a daily basis can easily overlook the wider context of our work. Whilst there are lots of other reasons for organising a consultation, one of the most important is to help politicians, civil servants, senior Managers and others make policy. It has never been easy, but

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Managing change fairly – Meeting Equalities Act requirements is one of the main ways to ensure Fairness

Leave a Comment / Article, Tuesday Topic / Rhion Jones

We live in uncertain times and with conflicting visions of our future. Right now it is as difficult to predict what will happen to the private sector as to the public sector. Amid the diverse predictions, there is but one constant – the overwhelming likelihood of change. But, when it comes to public services, so

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The business of influence – The public affairs industry is learning how to work with public consultations

Leave a Comment / Article, Tuesday Topic / Rhion Jones

From time to time you will all see simplistic definitions of the term ‘consultation’. You know the sort we mean. ‘Listening to people’s views’ is typical, or ‘Asking stakeholders what they think of our proposals’. Those who have attended Institute courses will know that the defining characteristic of a proposed consultation is that it should

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Post-election consultations – Beware the newly-elected waving their ‘Mandates’; there are legal pitfalls!

Leave a Comment / Article, Tuesday Topic / Rhion Jones

This week Local Councillors and those who aspire to become ones will stand for election, and despite genuine concern about the state of our democracy, millions of us will exercise our right to vote. What happens afterwards?

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Goodbye tick-box; hello your honour! – Will the new Cabinet Office Consultation Principles’ attempt to end the tick-box habit result in a bigger role for the Courts?

Hillsborough – would elected Police Commissioners have helped? – Is this a good reason to vote on 15th November?

Whitehall's new Consultation principles – First reactions to the slimline replacement for the HM Government Code of Practice (2008)

The thin end of the wedge – Public consultations in an age of uncertainty

Questionable tactics – Using consultation to get agreement for pre-determined decisions!

Consultation’s role in policy-making – Policy development has never been more challenging

Managing change fairly – Meeting Equalities Act requirements is one of the main ways to ensure Fairness

The business of influence – The public affairs industry is learning how to work with public consultations

Post-election consultations – Beware the newly-elected waving their ‘Mandates’; there are legal pitfalls!

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