The Institute is asking for examples of public meetings. Sometimes we can learn more from worst practice than from best practice, so I thought I’d share this nightmare. Our story begins over ten years ago, in the village of Wing. Wing is in Buckinghamshire, between Aylesbury and Leighton Buzzard, not a million miles away from […]
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When someone asks you the “What do you do?” question, do you find it tricky explaining the myriad facets of a consultation and engagement expert? The next question, if they are still hanging on in there, is probably, “Wow! That sounds really interesting – how did you learn to do all that?” Your honest answer,
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Commentary on R (ex parte Hillingdon & others) v Sec of State for Transport [2019] EWHC 1070 (Admin) The big idea behind the 2008 Planning Act was to stop repeating the arguments about what the national requirement was for infrastructure every time we tried to build something substantial. The solution was for the Government –
Consider the last public meeting you attended. Did you feel it was a satisfactory event – both from the viewpoint of the consultor and those who gave up their time to come along and hear what is happening? If, on reflection, you have concluded that it was not awfully satisfactory, why do you feel that
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Practitioners of public engagement in the NHS may want to look at a paper recently published by respected academics in the journal ‘Health Economics, Policy and Law’. Called Transforming health care: the policy and politics of service reconfiguration in the UK’s four health systems, it is written by Ellen Stewart, Scott Greer, Angelo Erica and
First-time Councillors face a real challenge. Few experiences in life can prepare them for the civic duty that lies ahead. It takes a while to grasp the complexities of organisations that, in England, spends almost £80bn on local services (excluding Police and Fire/Rescue). Moreover, it is a shrinking budget. The amount spent on local Council
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Yesterday (25th April) we held our first Member exclusive webinar of 2019! Lasting around 30 minutes, Nick Duffin, who delivered the webinar, shared Institute thinking on options appraisal. He discussed: What tCI has learnt from judicial reviews and the legal challenges before Court The shape of good option appraisal Who should be involved in the
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This begs the question ‘… according to whom?’ In the distant past, we remember coming out of a public meeting where the organisers must have been dispirited and disappointed. But the audience felt elated; campaigners were cock-a-hoop; the Council had been embarrassed and impassioned speeches from the floor had been duly applauded. Conversely, we have
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The saga of Horton Hospital, Banbury continues. This month, the Court of Appeal handed down its judgment and rejected campaigners’ claims that consultees were not given a sufficient opportunity to comment on the ‘bed closure test’ for NHS reconfigurations. The case is Keep the Horton General v Oxfordshire CCG. The ‘bed closure test’ is an interesting idea – announced by Simon Stevens
Horton hospital consultation – Appeal Court rejects arguments on the ‘bed closure’ test Read More »
They are now coming thick and fast. Legal challenges by parents to Council decisions to make changes to the provision of services for those with Special Education Needs and Disabilities (SEND). First, we had a case in Bristol last year – won by claimants on the grounds that the Council had not consulted properly. Last
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