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Posted 10 years ago5 minute read

Summing up the Options – A recent Judicial Review highlights the problem when the numbers don’t add up

Lambeth Council has just lost a Judicial Review in a case that holds lessons for many of us involved with...

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Posted 10 years ago5 minute read

Consultation ‘after the event’ – Can it ever be right to use consultation to seek support for a decision you’ve already taken?

Over the weekend, the Leader of the Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn wrote to party members to ‘consult’ them about their...

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Posted 10 years ago4 minute read

Consultation as pantomime – It’s the season to reflect on the similarities between consultation and a good old-fashioned Pantomime!

Oh No it isn’t! Well, just for once, let’s admit that many public consultations have about them the sense of...

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Posted 11 years ago5 minute read

Pinch-points – Effective planning of a public consultation needs to take proper account of the known challenges inherent in the process.

Consultations have been organised for years. True, a lot of expertise has haemorrhaged away through successive redundancies and reorganisations, but...

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Posted 11 years ago11 minute read

English Devolution – The Democratic Deficit

Introduction In a world of ever decreasing budgets and deep cuts to core services, “Devolution” is seemingly the biggest opportunity...

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Posted 11 years ago5 minute read

Governance matters – We pay too little attention to the governance of public consultation

Organising a public consultation on any significant scale requires project management skills. It is a project, with the need to...

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