In recent days, municipal leaders have queued up to complain that they have not been adequately consulted about imminent plans for further actions to seek to contain the COVID-19 second wave. As this is written, a dialogue finally seems underway. Yet, in a series of public statements last week, the leaders of Manchester, Liverpool, Newcastle, […]
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This time last year consultation events were taking place across the country, and there was not a face mask or a hand sanitiser in sight. That scene is hard to recall today. Most public consultation events are stalled, and in the rare case that they are intended, organisers are having to plan for a ‘Covid-safe’
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The lack of consultation on the coronavirus regulations was again top of the agenda in Parliament this week, though the debate has moved from the Commons to the Lords. In yet another example of protestations by party grandees, this time the revolt was lead by erstwhile Chancellor of the Exchequer, Lord Lamont of Lerwick. Moving
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By my reckoning, last Thursday’s Waterfront conference on Consultation and Stakeholder engagement for Infrastructure was my fifth consecutive appearance as Guest Chair of this event. It is normally held in central London in the offices of its prime sponsor, the law firm Burgess Salmon, but this time around it was a virtual conference – with the
An MP, a Peer and a Journalist walk into a Parliamentary Bar at 10:01. The bar tender welcomes them in then ten minutes later kicks them out. Can you work out what happened? Yes, the journalist reported the bar was still open after ten, and the public outcry was sufficient to throw them out again.
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Last week, we wrote about the Government’s procedurally woeful response to the Gender Recognition Act consultation. In our piece, we identified that it was a controversial consultation, and whatever the result it would likely prove polarising. The reactions have come in thick and fast, on both sides. A couple of days ago, however, we saw
How far I’ll go – Where lies the onus to reach out to consultees? Read More »
The big news this week has focussed on the imminent independence of Kent (I may have stopped reading that story halfway through) and the new coronavirus restrictions being imposed to control the resurgence of the virus (if you haven’t downloaded the app yet, please do so). But as ever, things rumble on beneath the service
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The Government has published its long-awaited response to the Gender Recognition Act consultation. The consultation explored the process by which an individual may obtain a Gender Recognition Certificate (GRC) to receive legal recognition of their acquired gender, under the Gender Recognition Act 2004. Before we examine the consultation process itself, we should probably acknowledge that
A failure of leadership and duty – the Government’s response to the GRA consultation Read More »
NHS England and NHS Improvement have prepared a new document that will prove really useful to anyone involved in organising significant service changes. It is called Legal duties for service change: a guide (available to anyone involved in NHS Service Change by request) and its great virtue is that it concisely covers the basics of the
Institute welcomes new NHS Legal duties Guide Read More »
Today saw the release of a report by the Public Accounts Committee (one of the many select committees that Parliament uses to scrutinise the government) examining the work of the home office, in particular its actions on Immigration enforcement. The report does not make cheerful reading. It expresses deep concern at how little evidence the
“Anecdote and assumption”- Should the Home Office be consulting more? Read More »
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