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“You don’t need all stakeholders ‘onside’, but you need at least some of them”

Today the Consultation Institute renewed its call for the elite football clubs to consult their fans before making changes to the ‘beautiful game’. Three years ago, the Institute highlighted cases where supporters and local communities’ views were not being heard. The ESL proposal illustrates how little clubs have done to engage with these key stakeholders, […]

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Court declares COVID-time hospital re-purposing unlawful due to inadequate public involvement

Article / Rhion Jones

R (Dawson) v United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust [2021] EWHC 928 (admin) Last Spring, during and following the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, hundreds of urgent changes were made to the way the NHS operated. Many services were affected from routine GP surgeries and outpatient appointments to long-planned treatments or surgery. Guidance from NHS

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The Week in Parliament

Article / Stephen Hill

Parliament is back after the Easter break, as am I, and we’re both eagerly awaiting the upcoming session. With a Queen’s Speech due in May, time is ticking on the clock of this Parliamentary session, so let’s see what we can get done in the next month… Westminster Accusations were flying in the Lords this

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The shadowy room and the open forum- relationships between lobbying and consultation

Article / Stephen Hill

The word of the week in Westminster must surely be ‘lobbying’. The revelations have been coming thick and fast, and the Government has to date announced (we think) seven separate inquiries related to lobbying and alleged breaches of the spirit, if not the letter of the law. In PMQs this week, the Prime Minister said

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Quality over Quantity: A “record high” for ECB’s digital euro consultation?

Article / Fraser Henderson

It’s hard to knock a bank when it decides to consult, particularly as there has been such as void when it comes to branch closures. So when, in the period between October 2020 and January 2021, the ECB decided to consult on the introduction of a “digital Euro”, we did a mini dance. The bank

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Guest Article: The UK Consult | Episode 31: Starring Rhion Jones from The Consultation Institute

Article / TCI Team

Welcome to the UK Consult, our occasional ramble through all things about public consultation and citizen engagement in the UK, with special guests and lovely examples of online public consultation from around the world! In this episode, Jonno is entertained by our special guest Rhion Jones from The Consultation Institute. Join Rhion and Jonno as they

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Royal patronage and the conduct of public debate

Article / Rhion Jones

Of the many achievements celebrated by media and masses in the hours since the Duke of Edinburgh died, many have highlighted his early championing of the causes of conservation and environmental protection. A little like Sir David Attenborough, he is credited with promoting unpopular causes long before they became mainstream. Even though UK public opinion

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Building a capability Network

Article / Rhion Jones

Rhion Jones reflects on current priorities. Two weeks ago, I contributed to a morning event attended by almost eighty officers from the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. It was called the Community Engagement Network, and in addition to myself, they heard from Florence Obinna of LB of Hackney – a very experienced and highly

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Guidance on Guidance

Article, Tuesday Topic / Rhion Jones

How much attention should we give to consultation guidance? In the ideal world, consultation happens when those about to take decisions or adopt policies recognise the value of listening to others’ views before proceeding. In the real world, consultation often arises because a body of superior authority has ruled that it is necessary. Sometimes it

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One year on: How have we been helping you?

Article / TCI Team

Lockdown has been a busy period for us ensuring that consultors still have the tools they need to properly engage with their stakeholders. From the early days of the pandemic where we issued our covid guidance and opened our covid communications wiki, run by our associates, through the attempts to reopen up and the return

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“You don’t need all stakeholders ‘onside’, but you need at least some of them”

Court declares COVID-time hospital re-purposing unlawful due to inadequate public involvement

The Week in Parliament

The shadowy room and the open forum- relationships between lobbying and consultation

Quality over Quantity: A “record high” for ECB’s digital euro consultation?

Guest Article: The UK Consult | Episode 31: Starring Rhion Jones from The Consultation Institute

Royal patronage and the conduct of public debate

Building a capability Network

Guidance on Guidance

One year on: How have we been helping you?

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