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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

We asked Elizabeth Gammell, who is the author of the new e-learning package on Consultation and Public Events, about the Institute’s new offering. Why is this a priority subject? Don’t people already know how to run public events ? You might imagine so. It is every Consultation or Engagement Manager’s bread-and-butter. That’s because members of the

With thousands of hopeful candidates standing for election this May, it is a good time to give them a reminder to take care with any commitments they make, which could eventually involve a public consultation. Why is this important? To understand the answer to this question we have to go back 15 years and explore

A number of consultation managers, bearing scars from public meetings which have been less than satisfactory, may well wish the answer was “Yes!” However, it would be wrong to consign a dialogue method regarded by Darryl Holiday of the City Bureau, Chicago, as “…the bedrock of civil society” to the dustbin of Past Engagement Techniques,