In South West London and Surrey Downs, when restrictions on social contact came into place, the local CCGs were already 10 weeks into a 12 week consultation, Improving Healthcare Together (IHT), and most of their face to face engagement activities had taken place. They had one scheduled listening event and one deliberative event left and […]
Covid-19: Virtual listening and deliberative events Read More »
Will it change the information that’s required? If we had possessed a crystal ball at the end of December 2019 and peered in to see what life would be like three months later, could we have believed that the country would be in virtual lockdown, our NHS fighting desperately to save those with the most
Post pandemic consultation Read More »
So you work for a local authority? Or any public body with an extensive range of public or stakeholder consultations it manages on an almost daily basis. Today…you may even be working from home! Your colleagues in the communications team are super-busy encouraging better hand-washing, social distancing and self-isolation. Dozens of others are trying to
What consultation should I salvage? Read More »
Recently, the Institute was asked a very interesting question from one of our members. The question was as follows “Is it ever OK for a councillor to respond to their own consultation?” It’s a very interesting question and one that we have struggled to definitively get an answer to. Examining the law, the first thought was that of
Should consultors ever respond to their own consultations? Read More »
The most important thing to come out of Parliament this week was of course the Coronavirus Act, which we have written about separately here. With that out of the way, this column can become a Coronavirus free zone! Actually, that might leave us with a bit of a problem, as outside of that particular issue it
The Week in Parliament Read More »
At 5:30PM Wednesday evening the Coronavirus Act was given royal assent and became law in the United Kingdom. It is undoubtedly a truly seismic piece of legislation enabling the government to properly implement the lockdown under which we have now all been placed until the severity of the crisis lessens. Things that in normal times would have been considered legislatively
The Coronavirus Act 2020- Desperate times and desperate measures Read More »
Sincerest apologies for the lack of a Week in Parliament last week, I’m afraid a combination of the Budget and the escalating coronavirus situation made the end of last week a little bit fraught! But we are back in action, so far as we can be this week. Parliament has a brand new obsession, and
The Week in Parliament Read More »
ED: Apologies for the delay on this- Covid-19 ended up rather dominating things towards the end of last week. Last week’s budget was, as we said in our quick summary on the day, a budget of two halves. The first part designed to bring in measures to support the ongoing fight against the coronavirus, and the second to begin to
Budget 2020: What are the omens for consultation? Read More »
The Consultation Institute has today issued advice to all members and the public on how the ongoing coronavirus crisis will affect consultation and public engagement. The Institute advises on key questions as to whether your consultations should proceed, reasonable alterations you should make to your processes to ensure that they remain within the expected standards,
Institute issues advice on covid-19 and consultation Read More »
The Institute is regularly approached by public bodies seeking to conduct consultation that meets best practice standards. Increasingly those who approach us are wrestling with the challenge of meeting the requirements to co-produce service change, which policymakers in all spheres of public activity require as a first step rather than an additional activity bolted on.
Co-production: an asset-based approach to involving citizens in service change Read More »
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