Season One concluded at the end of April. Season Two opens on the 7th May with thirteen sessions covering legal risk, equality analysis, data, digital practice, and stakeholder management. We are also delighted to announce that we have a number of special guests joining us. Click Here to Register and we will send you an […]
Coffee Morning – Season Two: Thirteen Sessions, Every Thursday, May to July Read More »
The Consultation Institute’s 2026–27 public virtual training programme is now open for registrations of interest. 41 courses run from 16 June 2026 to 25 May 2027, covering the full range of consultation and engagement practice: consultation law, equality duties, digital engagement, artificial intelligence, data collection and analysis, stakeholder management, co-production and community engagement. Several subjects
tCI Public (Virtual) Training 2026–27 Read More »
The NHS Modernisation Bill, announced in the 2026 King’s Speech, proposes to abolish NHS England and centralise NHS governance in the Department of Health and Social Care. For consultation and engagement practitioners, the structural changes raise immediate questions about statutory duties, local voice, and how to avoid repeating the mistakes of previous NHS reorganisations. What
NHS Modernisation Bill: what it means for consultation and engagement Read More »
Emergency change does not switch off public law. Whether the organisation is a council, an NHS body or a fire and rescue authority, pressure and urgency may justify moving quickly, but they do not justify weak equality analysis, vague reasons, or treating a temporary measure as if it never needs proper scrutiny. The legal test
Emergency change: does it suspend equality and consultation? Read More »
Oxfordshire County Council is set to consider revised fire and rescue proposals after a consultation that produced significant changes: no station closures, the Thame proposal withdrawn, and the north Oxford plan paused. For consultation practitioners, the question is not whether the politics worked out. It is whether the process remained genuinely capable of changing the
When consultation actually changes the decision: the Oxfordshire fire service case Read More »
England’s planning reforms are not just about speeding up decisions. They are changing who is accountable for how consultation is conducted, how representations are handled, and how that evidence withstands scrutiny. Three specific changes create immediate legal and governance exposure for local planning authorities that have not updated their processes. The reform direction across development
Planning Consultation Requirements: Are Councils Ready? Read More »
We’re relaunching our Thursday morning sessions from February, and we want to know what you’d like to explore Good news: our coffee mornings are coming back. We ran these back in the early 2020s and they were really valuable, so we’re bringing them back from February. We’d love to hear what topics you’d like us
Coffee Mornings Return: What are the Topics (Season 1) Read More »
Public bodies sometimes promise to consult. Sometimes they have always consulted in the past. Does either of those facts create a legal obligation to consult again? The doctrine of legitimate expectation says it can, but the courts set the bar high, and the gap between what practitioners assume will count and what actually does is
Legitimate Expectation: When a Promise to Consult Creates a Legal Duty Read More »
Too many organisations still treat consultation as a late-stage exercise in explanation. They prepare the message, publish a survey, and hope that visible activity will reduce opposition. That approach is weak on both law and governance. A consultation that begins after minds are made up is exposed from the start. The Gunning principles, the legal test
A Welsh Government advisory group published its progress report on democratic renewal in Wales this month. Buried in the detail is a pointed observation about public consultation: that it is “rarely sufficient and hugely overused.” We think that deserves a closer look. What did the Welsh Government’s advisory group actually say? The Innovating Democracy Advisory Group (IDAG),
Is public consultation enough? What Wales found Read More »
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