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Posted 12 years ago5 minute read

Ten years on … – The Consultation Institute has much to do in the next ten years – but the agenda is changing!

  When the Institute began in 2003, there was quite a lot of public and stakeholder consultation. Some of it...

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Posted 12 years ago6 minute read

Had Mrs Nash been quicker? – Clarifying Councils’ consultation obligations; ‘Best Value’ still lives!

Considering the sheer number of judicial reviews sought on issues of consultation and engagement in recent years, it may surprise...

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Posted 12 years ago5 minute read

Self-selected samples – When consultation respondents might be unrepresentative

An experienced consultation officer in the NHS recently could scarcely conceal her delight. The consultation had resulted in a 1%...

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Posted 12 years ago5 minute read

Birth of a consultation option. – Once an option …always an option? Or maybe not…!

A public body we know has spent two years – on and off – examining a wholesale reorganisation of its...

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Posted 12 years ago7 minute read

Lessons from the Safe & Sustainable saga

It is not very often that a Government Minister has to come to Parliament to explain that a high-profile consultation...

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Posted 12 years ago5 minute read

Consultation interruptus…? – What happens when something unexpected happens during a consultation?

Not so long ago, a public consultation was a reasonably predictable process. We prepared a suitable document, outlining the problem...

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