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Councils finance bosses face Xmas mulling over cash consultation

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Merry Christmas everyone. Except that if you are an officer or an elected member worrying about the ever-worsening finances of local authorities in England, you have precisely 11 working days (exc Bank holidays) to respond to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government’s consultation on next year’s financial settlement. View this here. A four-week […]

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Three 2018 Court judgments that changed the Law of Consultation

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Public servants, be they local government officers, NHS Managers or departmental civil servants enter 2019 facing an even tighter set of legal rules affecting the Law of Consultation. Decision-makers similarly need to be conscious that judicial interventions to quash or postpone their actions are at an all-time high. In short, 2018 brought a range of

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NHS service change: Patient involvement duties and planning for winter

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While most of us were basking in the Mediterranean temperatures of this summer’s heatwave, stalwart NHS planners across the country had the extremes of a different season firmly in mind: Winter. The challenges winter surges in our hospitals are extensively and continuously documented in newsprint and online from the first signs of frost to and

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Consultation as an alternative to a Second Referendum? Why it’s not the answer!

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We live in extraordinary political times – so fluid that this article may be obsolete faster than anything else ever written by the Institute. However – right now – 7th December, there is an emerging awareness that our representative democracy has blundered into an impasse. A destructive stalemate where usually-closed minds are casting around for

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Some excellent recommendations, but will they change policy on consultation in planning?

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At the end of November, the TCPA published Planning 2020:  the final report of the Raynsford Review of Planning in England. This in an incredibly comprehensive and significant assessment of the English planning system by former housing minister Nick Raynsford, and the product of thousands of responses, of which tCI was one (view our response

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Consultation ideas … even in ex-Soviet Central Asia…

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The UK has long been a magnet for countries to send their brightest and best to learn about democratic principles and pubic services. Strange, given our current convulsions but our reputation for training civil servants and developing civil society remains high. And this is often thanks to relatively little-known organisations, some of which have worked

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The Sefton Tunnel Judicial Review: One-off; or the shape of things to come?

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There is much to ponder about the High Court decision to reject Sefton Council’s legal challenge to plans for a new access road to the Port of Liverpool. The Council questioned Highways England’s decision to exclude the option of building a tunnel as part of the route. Both the route options which featured in a

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