One area of consultation, and it’s a huge one, which the Institute has never really explored is Employee Consultation. It is full of statutory obligations and the added layer of Trades Unions involvement. The vigorous debates happening right now as teaching unions discuss the safety issues around re-opening schools is a pertinent example. Having constructive […]
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We’ve written previously about co-production, its role and increasing prominence in engagement and consultation through policy and practice and last week we had an online Wednesday Wisdom session on the subject. Aside from touching on the basic principles the questions from participants in the webinar focused on a range of practical issues. If you’re a
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As it’s a bank holiday weekend, I thought we’d take a quick look, external to the regular Week in Parliament, at something else that cropped up this week and caused me some amusement. On Wednesday, the House of Lords performed scrutiny on the newly introduced Weights and Measures Act 1985 (Definitions of “Metre” and “Kilogram”)
A heavy hitting consultation or the easiest diet in history? Read More »
Consultations in Parliament it turns out, are like buses, you go weeks without any and then a whole bunch of them turn up at once. Even more amazingly, only three of them related to the coronavirus crisis. I particularly want to look at the debate on the new Draft Human Tissue (Permitted Material: Exceptions) (England)
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The UK is currently at the forefront of this growing ‘climate emergency’ campaign as many local authorities, universities, NHS trusts and various organisations, such as engineering and energy firms, have joined the fight by declaring a climate emergency. With the goal to become carbon-neutral ahead of the 2050 national target. Local authorities are now acting
Responding to the climate emergency – who are the key stakeholders? Read More »
Global carbon emissions are likely to see their steepest fall this year since the second world war, according to researchers who say coronavirus lockdown measures have already cut them by nearly a fifth. But the team warns that the dramatic drop won’t slow climate change. Read more So has the COVID-19 pandemic had some positive
Is there a climate change benefit from lockdown? Read More »
We are currently facing an oxymoron in our working lives – a state where there is ‘a new normal’ and at the same time, where everything is changing. Public consultation is one area where great swathes of teams and processes have all had to change on a sixpence. It is hard to believe that in
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In April 2020, in an interesting case for public engagement and environmental protection, Ontario passed a new regulation in response to the COVID-19 crisis, effectively suspending public consultation under Ontario’s 1994 Environmental Bill of Rights. In this post, we reflect on this case in the light of Canada’s decision not to ratify the 1998 Aarhus
For a couple of weeks I have been confidently predicting that we are due an upswing in mentions of consultations in Parliament as we move out from the more desperate early times of the coronavirus pandemic. We seem now to have reached that time. In our Briefing paper released last week, we remarked on the
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If you are a representative group of some sort, a trade association or part of the Third sector, this is especially for you. The weeks and months that lie ahead will require Government departments, regulators, local authorities and public bodies of all kinds to take decisions that may have far-reaching consequences for the livelihoods of
Exit from Lockdown: are stakeholders being heard? Read More »
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