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Consultation and the resurgence of evidence
Will Big Oil face the same legal challenges as Big Tobacco? A recent Special Report in The Economist had a section heading called ‘Courtrooms are the new battleground for climate…
Read moreFury as traffic flow cameras secretly monitor pedestrians for social distancing without public consultation
Millions of people are being monitored for social distancing as part of a government-backed project secretly rolled out across Britain, the Mail can reveal. In what campaigners call a sign…
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Participation and power – does your voice count?
Apart from monitoring the goings-on in the Commons Chamber itself, we also do our best to keep an eye on happenings in legislative committee rooms throughout the UK. It’s not…
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The Week in Parliament
Westminster It’s finally here, the UK Internal Market Bill has had its first outing in the House of Lords, and it went just about as well as you’d expect. Moving…
Read moreCouncillors face dramatic vote over their leader and traffic controversy in extraordinary meeting
Ealing councillors are set for a dramatic night over the authority’s leadership and controversial traffic-calming scheme on Tuesday (October 20). In an extraordinary meeting at 7pm, members from across the…
Read moreNursery faces potential closure amid Covid-19 budget restraints
A Brighton nursery may close because the number of children has fallen and the coronavirus restrictions have left it losing money. A consultation has just ended on the future of…
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Guest article: Using Twitter as a data source: an overview of social media research tools
Twitter and other social media platforms represent a large and largely untapped resource for social data and evidence. In this post, Wasim Ahmed updates his recurring series on the Impact Blog, to…
Read moreCouncil fails to consider impact of pedestrian zones on blue badge holders
Controversial extensions to York pedestrian zones introduced at the end of June under emergency Covid legislation which have left Blue Badge holders feeling excluded from the city centre will almost…
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Decisions, decisions. Making time to get them right
One of the challenges of planning a process of making decisions about health services that involve a public consultation is that the consultation tends to take centre stage. Perceptions about…
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