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Consultation Data – Quality or Quantity? – Getting the right balance between qualitative and quantitative methods

Listening effectively to the public, through professionally-organised consultations is a challenge. If decision-makers are to do better than just respond through knee-jerk reactions to opinion-poll data, care is needed to select consultation methods that provide the most useful and meaningful insight into the issues. There is no shortage of methods. Some techniques are quantitative in […]

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Dear New Councillor…

Article / Stephen Hill

Congratulations on your election to your new seat of [Insert Seat Here], and welcome to the wonderful world of local government! We’re sure you’ll enjoy your stay- however long that’ll be (just a little joke, you’ll get used to it). Or perhaps you’re an old hand? Been in opposition for a while maybe, and now

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The Health and Care Act 2022- some answers to engagement concerns, but more remains to be addressed

Article / Stephen Hill

Last week, the Queen gave Royal Assent to the much-debated Health and Care Bill, completing its parliamentary process and making it into the Health and Care Act 2022. We wrote a lot during the debating phases of the legislation, and in a briefing paper highlighted where we thought the emergent issues might be. So, as

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Getting Out of Barry’s World

Article / Barry Creasy

Over my many years of helping organisations to improve their surveys/questionnaires, one problem area has always stood out. When I teach this in my courses, I use my own name as an exemplar, but it applies to everyone: the questions are so often written from the world-view of the person who is writing them, and

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Guest Article: My 5-point plan to run accessible events

Article / TCI Team

Article by Luke Bodin, BA Events If you’re like me, you will want everyone that arrives at your event to feel welcome and be able to engage. This is key to ensuring the consultation you do is as inclusive as possible. However, 19% of working adults are disabled – so having a plan to make

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Join us for The Perfect Blend; let’s discuss consultation responses ☕

Article / TCI Team

Consultation Responses: Quality vs Quantity The Perfect Blend | Session 8 Date: Tuesday 10th May Time: 10am Obtaining meaningful consultation responses and listening effectively to the public through consultation is a challenge. If decision-makers are to do better than knee-jerk reactions to opinion-poll data, care is needed to select consultation methods that provide the most useful and meaningful insight

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Who will defend Backside Lane and Rotten Row? The Government’s consultation on street naming

Article / Stephen Hill

Just as I was beginning to worry that there was little to write about this week, imagine my joy when I stumbled upon this– a recently published technical consultation about how streets are named. Street names are an absolutely fascinating study (odonymy, for those who are interested), which can reveal an awful lot about an

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The Week in Parliament

Article / Stephen Hill

Parliament has been full of eye-catching things recently. Unfortunately for us, most of that has not been related to consultation, but to the behaviour of politicians, and whilst we managed to find an angle on that before, this time we could do little but repeat that article verbatim. But the naughtiness of men and ministers

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The Institute and Earth Day 2022

Article / TCI Team

The theme and overall message for Earth Day 2022 is Invest In Our Planet. Organisations globally are coming together to hold events, share knowledge and advocate to deliver the greenhouse gas reductions needed by 2030 to meet the Paris Agreement. The UNFCCC Handbook emphasises the importance of public participation in climate action. The use of deliberative and

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Guest Article: We need to talk about Nature: Challenges of digital community engagement on a complex global issue

Article / TCI Team

Article by Russell De’Ath and Serinde Van Wijk, Natural Resources Wales “Nature and Us” is a year-long project to involve the people of Wales in a national conversation about the future of our natural environment. The evidence is stark – if we continue to consume resources as we do now, we would need 2.4 planets

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Consultation Data – Quality or Quantity? – Getting the right balance between qualitative and quantitative methods

Dear New Councillor…

Getting Out of Barry’s World

Guest Article: My 5-point plan to run accessible events

Join us for The Perfect Blend; let’s discuss consultation responses ☕

Who will defend Backside Lane and Rotten Row? The Government’s consultation on street naming

The Week in Parliament

The Institute and Earth Day 2022

Guest Article: We need to talk about Nature: Challenges of digital community engagement on a complex global issue

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