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Online design standards: achieving best practice in bridging accessibility gaps

One of the most important legal cases of the past year, possibly even the past couple of years, was the Binder case, a challenge to the Government’s exercise on the new National Disability Strategy on the grounds that it had not been, as the Government claimed, an ‘engagement’ exercise, but rather a ‘consultation’, which brought […]

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The Week in Parliament

Article / Stephen Hill

Well, the big political news story today is the Government’s loss of two by-elections in Wakefield and Tiverton and Honiton, but I’ve not yet had chance to find the consultation angle on those yet (there will be one somewhere. There always is. I learnt that from the master, Rhion Jones…). So what else has been

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Cycle Lane or video game? The importance of consulting on design, as well as principle

Article / Stephen Hill

Sometimes we find our news stories cropping up in the most unusual places. Sometimes in two. This one I found whilst I was waiting at the airport for a flight desperately trying not to think about work (unusual place 1), on the video gaming focussed website Kotaku (unusual place 2). It involves the story of

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Parish meetings and polls: the strange intersection of campaigns, local government and the electorate

Article / Stephen Hill

In Whitby, we’ve recently seen an interesting local poll on the issue of second houses. After Padstow in Cornwall (the town made most famous by its association with the TV Chef Rick Stein), Whitby has seen the second highest house price increase of any coastal resort, perhaps understandable given the picturesque nature of the area.

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Half a pound of tuppenny rice… or should that be 226.796 grams of tuppenny rice? The imperial measurements consultation

Article / Stephen Hill

Do you prefer your fruit and veg in pounds and ounces or grams and kilograms? Your lengths in feet and inches, or centimetres and metres? Perhaps you prefer even older measurements, furlongs perhaps? Well if you do, this could just be the consultation for you. As part of their drive to take advantage of the

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The PM survives, for now, but will he take a more consultative approach?

Article / Stephen Hill

The post-jubilee drama is over, with Sir Graham Brady announcing that the Prime Minister won the Tory rebels’ vote-of-no-confidence by 211 votes to 148, a much narrower victory than many (including by all accounts the PM’s team) had expected. Whilst he may have won the vote however, he is not yet out of the woods,

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The Week in Parliament

Article / Stephen Hill

Another week, another report. No Week in Parliament next week I’m afraid, not only because of the bank holiday but also because I’m off on holiday. We’ll also be absent the week after, as we’ll be heading North to meet with our lovely associates. I’ll try and make sure you get an extra-bonus article somewhere

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Back of the net? Or a missed opportunity for increasing cohesion? Public engagement and major sporting events

Article / Stephen Hill

Many of us will still remember the general excitement in July 2012 when Danny Boyle’s magical Opening Ceremony played out on our screens, and the Queen parachuted out of a helicopter, accompanied by James Bond, to officially open the 2012 London Olympics. The ceremony and the ensuing games would bring the biggest ever medal haul

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Two mistakes and a grave problem- a local consultation roundup

Article / Stephen Hill

It’s been a little while since we did a proper local consultation roundup hasn’t it? Though we no longer regularly repost local news stories, we do still keep an eye on goings on in local authorities, and you can be sure that whenever there Is controversy or something curious going on we’ll be sniffing around.

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The Week in Parliament

Article / Stephen Hill

I fear the events of the week regarding Downing Street rule-breaking may rather put anything I say about goings on in Parliament into the shade, however I am nothing if not an eternal optimist, so let’s take a quick sweep across Britain shall we? Westminster One of the most significant challenges of Brexit was always

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Online design standards: achieving best practice in bridging accessibility gaps

The Week in Parliament

Cycle Lane or video game? The importance of consulting on design, as well as principle

Parish meetings and polls: the strange intersection of campaigns, local government and the electorate

Half a pound of tuppenny rice… or should that be 226.796 grams of tuppenny rice? The imperial measurements consultation

The PM survives, for now, but will he take a more consultative approach?

The Week in Parliament

Back of the net? Or a missed opportunity for increasing cohesion? Public engagement and major sporting events

Two mistakes and a grave problem- a local consultation roundup

The Week in Parliament

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