As the coronavirus continues to change the way we live and work, we are beginning to see the first moves to compensate for the changes it is forcing upon us. In the UK we had the fast tracked passage of the Coronavirus Act, which we wrote about here. Around the world different states have similarly […]
Planning and infrastructure- different approaches and unanswered questions Read More »
Right in the middle of the current health emergency, many commentators have observed that at a time of national crisis, people tend to cling to the words of people they believe to be ‘experts’. It is worth recalling that a few years ago, a leading politician claimed that we had all had rather too much of ‘experts’ and
The resurgence of the experts? What impact on consultations? Read More »
One of the warnings the Institute gave in our Coronavirus emergency advice, and that has been repeated by our associates, is that public bodies should not attempt to use the cover of coronavirus to push through changes without consultation. It seems we are not the only ones to note this possibility. The recently released Government
Government warning- don’t try and push through changes using coronavirus as cover Read More »
Introduction It is the nature of regulation that it sometimes becomes necessary for decisions to be taken and for organisations to lose their status and sometimes their livelihoods. This case highlights the issues that can arise when a comprehensive consultation on a new regulatory framework still failed to assuage the grievance of a body which felt it had been
Deregistered college loses case but raises consultation questions for regulators Read More »
The Institute is an advocate of online public engagement and consultation and has successfully helped many organisations implement effective online methods into their consultation process. However, the Institute has previously emphasised that online consultations prove to be most successful when used in conjunction with offline methods. Nonetheless, the introduction of the social distancing policy hasn’t
How effective might online consultation be amid the Coronavirus Pandemic? Read More »
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 »
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