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Bursting the Barriers to Green Recovery – Engage, Engage, Engage!

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Three-word slogans appear to be fashionable, but in this case is entirely justifiable. Local authorities everywhere are contemplating a future fraught with immense challenges. Even without the unprecedented dislocation of the pandemic, times would have been tough. Government promises to ‘level up’ and talk of an end to ‘austerity’ in 2020 would, of themselves , […]

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The Algorithm blame-game; was it a flawed consultation?

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Yes, there WAS a consultation; Admittedly only for two weeks; from April 15th– 29th And a big majority of the 12,623 respondents agreed with Ofqual’s plan to ‘standardise’ teachers’ predictions, almost to the last detail. So what went wrong? First, be clear about the role of a consultation in situations like this. It is a

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Public Health England is dead, long live the National Institute for Health Protection… but should there have been consultation?

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This week the Government formally announced the scrapping of Public Health England and the creation of the National Institute for Health Protection. The Government contends that this is a necessary merger of functions of PHE, NHS Track and Trace and the Joint Biosecurity Centre. The criticism of the announcement from medical professionals, academics, policy experts

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Sins of Omission

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If consultation was not undertaken – how to retrieve the situation. When coronavirus sent Whitehall – and everywhere else – into a flat spin, Government responded with a flurry of administrative and legislative actions, and clearly took quick decisions which, at other times would have involved various amounts of consultation. Inevitably, some of these have

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Police, Fire & Crime – by consent? Now is the time to ask

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In light of the recent announcement by the Home Office of a review of police and crime commissioner (PCC) powers that promises to give the public a greater say over policing, the Institute is set to embark on a ground-breaking piece of work to understand whether PCCs are adopting a best practice approach to fulfilling their statutory

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An F-Grade for the Government? Consultation and the A-Level Fiasco

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Today is results day for A-level students in England. It’s usually a day for endless media pictures of delighted students leaping joyously into the air, clutching the pieces of paper that represent the pathway to their bright new future. This year however, it seems the more apposite picture may be the one from the bottom

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COVID-19 lowered expectations… but signposts the end of ‘pick and choose’ consultations

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It was bound to happen. Amongst the frenetic days of lockdown in March, Ministers took decisions so quickly that consultation was neglected in the race to make or amend new laws and regulations. The case that went to Court was by Article 39, the children’s right charity. It argued that the Adoption and Children (Coronavirus)

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A guide to online facilitation

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Characteristics Foremost, facilitators need people skills, patience and be able to act sociably in order to gain respect.  A comprehensive list of cultural competencies[1] are listed below: – Be non-judgemental/withhold judgement. Be flexible. Be resourceful. Personalise observations. Pay attention to thoughts and feelings. Listen carefully. Observe attentively. Assume complexity. Tolerate the stress of uncertainty. Have patience.

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