Lambeth Council has just lost a Judicial Review in a case that holds lessons for many of us involved with pubic consultations. The story is about a social housing development called Cressingham Gardens, which is felt to be showing its age, fifty years after being built in the 1960s. Much of it is still social […]
Over the weekend, the Leader of the Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn wrote to party members to ‘consult’ them about their opinions on the difficult issue of whether or not the UK should conduct air strikes against the Daesh (ISIS) in Syria.
Oh No it isn’t! Well, just for once, let’s admit that many public consultations have about them the sense of a mild farce – if not a classic English pantomime. Like the annual winter theatricals, we have plenty of advance notice for the 12-week season during which the pantomime plays. True, Government Principles now allow
Consultations have been organised for years. True, a lot of expertise has haemorrhaged away through successive redundancies and reorganisations, but Public services in the UK employ thousands of competent people with extensive experience of organising public engagement and consultations. So it is a bit of a puzzle why so many exercises still run into difficulties,
Organising a public consultation on any significant scale requires project management skills. It is a project, with the need to co-ordinate a range of different activities, both sequentially or in parallel – and with all the inter-relationships. There’s a need to acquire resources and deploy them properly. There are sensitive political and timing considerations, and
Ever since Gladstone was called an ‘old man in a hurry’, there has been scepticism of politicians moving too quickly and overlooking the benefits of consultation in their anxiety to change things quickly. Anyone who heard Professor Anthony King at our recent Conference would have heard him criticise our pattern of transient Ministers – and,
The Government has launched a large number of consultations this summer. But probably the most high-profile, and politically contentious, will have been the Department of Culture, Media and Sport’s (DCMS) consultation on the BBC Charter Review. This is currently scheduled for 2016 and anyone who wades through the 83 pages will risk being overwhelmed by
Two years ago, at the Institute’s first Conference, we invited Lord Justice Sedley to talk about the Gunning Principles – a set of rules for public consultations that have assured him a lasting position in the history of the law of consultation. He first propounded the rules (they were first known as the Sedley propositions)
Just imagine. A major sporting event! One team, winning for much of the match, finds itself behind with only two minutes to go. It wins a penalty. Converting a penalty secures an honourable draw. The bolder option is to kick for position and the chance of outright victory if a subsequent score comes about. The
A common critique of public consultation is that it tends to tell you little more than you knew already. In theory, a well-run consultation should add considerably to the evidence available to decision-makers but the hard truth is that many organisations feel they already know all the arguments and that no amount of further dialogue
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