At the time of writing, Liz Truss has been Prime Minister of the United Kingdom for about twenty minutes. So we thought it was high time we wrote to her to lay some cards on the table and try to help her get a good start on the massive pile of issues already in her […]
Dear Ms Truss… an open letter to the new PM Read More »
Though I am not much of a sportsman (I’m far too introverted for that), one of the sports that I do vaguely follow at the national level is that bastion of Englishness, cricket. For the fan of English cricket, the last few years have been less than satisfying (barring the odd outlier), and in an
Hitting for six- using consultation to rectify England’s cricketing woes Read More »
Our cousins over the pond have many funny ideas. They play cricket weirdly in some sort of square formation. They prefer drinking hot drinks made from beans, of all things, instead of dry leaves like normal people. And they set some unusual Presidents… or should that be precedents? The latest example of cross-continental strangeness comes
What a load of rubbish- or is it? Read More »
This week, the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Sir Mark Lowcock, gave a speech in Washington DC in which he stated that the international aid system struggles because it does not listen to those who need the aid it supplies. Too often, he said, a top-down approach is used where
The challenges and benefits of consultation and engagement in international aid Read More »
Twice in the past week, my attention has been drawn by similar issues. The first came in a tweet we received asking about the importance of consultees being able to understand the information being presented to them in a consultation, and the second in this article from the Guardian. In the Guardian article, the former
“But I don’t understand!”- The importance of comprehension in consultation Read More »
On a fundamental level, consultation is about the acquiring of sufficient information for a decision-maker to be able to make a good decision. It constitutes a clear duty, whether founded on statute, or in common law, for those in charge to reach out to their communities and gather information that can then be analysed and
(Tameside) Inquiring minds- the fundamentals of consultation Read More »
The World Health Organisation, until recently, was a fairly obscure body for most members of the public. They might have known that it existed but particularly in the developed world it had minimal interaction with most peoples’ lives. In 2019 and 2020, that obviously changed.  The rise of Covid brought the organisation to the fore,
Monkeypox needs a new name. Got any ideas? Read More »
This week students from all over the country receive their results, and the nervous wait to find out which universities and other next steps in their education they will be heading off to begins. Turn on your television and you will be inundated with interviews from schools, and tomorrow’s papers will be bursting with pictures
Consultation on the curriculum- handling tricky issues in education Read More »
Statutory duties are the clearest expression of when we must consult. If it says we have to consult in an Act of Parliament, then we must. There’s none of the slightly fuzzy judgment calls that sometimes need to be made when a consultation duty might be engaged because of unfairness, or the “do we really
This week the Labour Party has done its oppositional duty by going on the attack against what it calls a ‘zombie government’. The cause for this appeal to undeath? 15 unanswered consultations. The eager monitor of the doings of Whitehall will know that Government consultations going unanswered is not an unusual occurrence. Probably the most
Ghost consultations- the problem of not responding to your own consultations Read More »
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