As managers and consultors across the globe will acknowledge – it is hard to please everyone during a public consultation. We frequently have questions from clients across sectors regarding that ‘magic moment’; having enough information on proposals so that consultees can give intelligent consideration, but not being so clued-up that you’ve already formed firm opinions […]
Is there a ‘magic moment’ for consultation? Read More »
Imagine being a fifteen-year established specialist body with a reasonably good reputation and waking up one day to find that an anonymous competitor has emerged. So, it copies your logo – changing one of our three-letter initialism (not acronym, note) but then cuts and paste our entire service portfolio – developed and perfected over years
‘Beware imitations!’ – coping with a phantom competitor Read More »
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
Councils finance bosses face Xmas mulling over cash consultation Read More »
The pitfalls of a seasonal get-together In theory, it’s a great idea. Invite all stakeholders to get together and celebrate. What can possibly go wrong? Of course, you have to lay a good foundation. Who could imagine going ahead without a thorough stakeholder mapping exercise? There are, after all, those with a considerable interest in
Welcome to the Consultation Xmas Party! Read More »
The issue of winter service closures in the health service is steadily getting bigger and gathering momentum like a snowball rolling down a hillside. A minor injury unit at Stratton Community Hospital in Bude, Cornwall will be temporarily closed overnight. The Shropshire Star reports the A&E at troubled Telford and Wrekin hospital faces a temporary
Hospital trust? When are temporary changes temporary? Read More »
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
Three 2018 Court judgments that changed the Law of Consultation Read More »
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
NHS service change: Patient involvement duties and planning for winter Read More »
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
Consultation as an alternative to a Second Referendum? Why it’s not the answer! Read More »
At the end of November, the TCPA published Planning 2020:Â 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
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
Consultation ideas … even in ex-Soviet Central Asia… Read More »
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