Best practice advice over the past few weeks has been around continuous engagement, why you might consider implementing such a strategy and what it might look like. This week, we will round up this particular series on continuous engagement to by helping you to understand whether you are suited to this strategy. Objectives: It is […]
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Zoom- The Commodores Anyone of a certain age must have at least thought about both this version and Fat Larry’s, as they join a call. Not sure how many of you will have gone so far to look into the lyrics of these seminal works? Well, Lionel sings: ‘I’m searching for that silver lining’ and Larry:
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At the time of writing, we see that many bodies that have had to divert staff to Covid related duties are now looking at returning to engaging and consulting the public. In some cases, this is the resumption of programmes stalled or halted by the pandemic. In other cases, this is about what happens next
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Boris Johnson’s talk to the nation on Sunday night revealed a ‘conditional plan’ whereby a large number of Lockdown ‘relaxations’ were mentioned. To our knowledge, few if any of these have been subject to consultation outside the Whitehall bubble, but the inference is that they can be implemented, and either continue or be abandoned according
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Just hours before Boris Johnson unveils his exit plan, the time is right to make the case for consultation. The Lockdown? It all happened so quickly. Italy, Spain and France are credited with having taken decisive action earlier, and, given the speed of the epidemic, two weeks may well have been a critical period, but
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What’s the biggest issue facing humanity in the short, medium and long term? Covid-19? Mass unemployment & inequality? Nope. Is it the climate emergency? Almost – but not quite. The biggest challenge facing humanity is how best to engage millions of people across the world about how to change our systems and behaviour to tackle
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Image Credit: Social Ninja A couple of weeks ago, we considered why you might want to consider continuous engagement and the difficulties of the way we operate today. This week we will look at what continuous engagement might look like. Possibly the best reason for considering adopting a continuous engagement strategy is that you would
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Covid-19 has had many different impacts on us. For many NHS bodies, it has meant having to make a range of emergency, urgent or temporary changes to services in order to manage staff and other resources to combat Covid-19 and provide care where it is most needed. In many cases, it has been about working
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The planning sector has seen some big changes over the first four weeks in lock-down. New regulations now allow councils at all levels to hold meetings without being face-to-face, and already we are seeing local councils take up the ability to hold virtual meetings to reschedule postponed or cancelled meetings – especially for planning matters.
At the end of last week, the Institute wrote two articles looking forward to the end of lockdown and social distancing measures. Rhion, in his article, identified that whilst the Scottish Government’s document on ending the restrictions did not use the term ‘consultation’, it clearly intimated an approach so close to consultation as to be
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