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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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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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
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 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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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
Some of the last votes in the House of Lords before they join their Commons colleagues in recess were on the Report stage of the Election Bill, the Government’s flagship legislation purporting to boost election security and strengthen our democracy. Those who have been about for a while will be familiar with this legislation, and
The Government energy strategy that we wrote about last week has finally been pushed out into the wild, though the absence of the usual pdf copy suggests that work was ongoing on it late into last night. Much as expected, it’s heavy on nuclear, announces a new independent technical review being conducted by the British
Wednesday 27th April, 11am – 12pm The Institute is pleased to announce the first Wednesday Wisdom webinar of the year: Making Webinars Work. Love them or hate them, we’re keeping webinars. But when you’re in the driving seat, what do you need to consider? Join Fraser Henderson for this Wednesday Wisdom exploring the format, technology
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At the beginning of July last year we wrote about Sheakh v London Borough of Lambeth, a challenge to Lambeth’s implementation of new low traffic neighbourhoods by way of both consultation and the public sector equality duty. In the original case, Mr Justice Kerr found for the Council on all grounds, but his decision was
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