At the end of 2019, I wrote an article reflecting on the first full year of the Institute’s e-Learning offering. As we recently passed the milestone of 1000 unique students, it felt appropriate to provide another reflective summary of e-Learning and Video Production, and its importance during the pandemic. The trend for e-Learning has generally […]
Online Reflections on 2021 Read More »
It’s the time of year when the Government decides how much (or, more usually, how little) money it is going to give to local authorities for their local government finance settlement. As with every year, they launch a consultation on their proposals. This year, it drew our attention, because it was accompanied by a ‘draft
To view the official press release, please click here. The Consultation Institute (tCI), a global leader in consultation best practice, and the National Democratic Institute (NDI), a non-governmental organisation that works in partnership around the world to strengthen and safeguard democratic institutions, today announced an eighteen-month partnership project aimed at raising public engagement standards in
By Peter McColl The planning system is how we, as a society, decide what gets built where. It is one of the ways in which many citizens engage in our political processes. When I worked in the Scottish Parliament, around half the casework MSPs received was about planning. And that’s appropriate given that the planning
Scotland’s National Planning Framework points the way to doing planning a better way Read More »
One of the key pieces of legislation currently going through the parliamentary process is the Governments new Elections Bill. The Bill is, according to the Government designed to strengthen the integrity of the electoral process and ensure their security in the future. It makes changes to the role of the Electoral Commission, and to financial
By Rhion Jones As the Health & Care Bill continues its passage through Parliament, many of us are looking anxiously at what is, at the time of writing, a proposed Ministerial power of intervention in service reconfigurations in England. (Clause 40). At the House of Lords Second Reading debate, last Tuesday the Parliamentary Under-Secretary for
NHS Reconfigurations – the ‘Power-grab’ clause Read More »
Been quiet in Westminster this week hasn’t it? Only the quiet rustling of crisp packets, the gentle tinkle of wine glasses, and the satisfying sigh of someone who has eaten far too much cheese* settling into a comfortable armchair. But who doesn’t have work meetings like that? I know the last time we did, I
The Week in Parliament Read More »
We hear a lot these days about new forms of consultation and engagement- more often than not these are the more traditionally ‘new’ forms like citizens juries and assemblies, but we’re also seeing a bit of an increase in other methods of information gathering. We’ve actually written about this previously in the context of ‘calls
Targeted, but not exclusionary: More new forms of ‘peripheral’ consultation Read More »
Don’t worry, we’re not gone! I’m afraid an assorted variety of pre-Christmas busy-ness, a nasty little cold and a lack of anything interesting with regards to consultation has prevented your regular parliamentary update. But we’re back now for a couple of final updates before Parliament goes into recess on 16th for the Christmas Holiday. Do
The Week in Parliament Read More »
By Quintin Oliver No matter how brilliant your Consultation Plan is, your updated stakeholder map and your choice of creative dialogue channels, your Consultation may run into trouble if the rest of your organisation is not fully on board. A recent tCI survey of our members came up with a range of comments about the
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