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Posted 14 years ago23 minute read

Local Authority Budget Consultations – An update

Introduction 1.1 The Consultation Institute‟s Briefing Paper 22, published in July 2010, set out some of the key public engagement...

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Posted 14 years ago4 minute read

Who sets the agendas? – A week of riots prompts serious thinking about the way in which we set the agenda

We can all count the commentators queuing up to demand that we have more dialogue with the thousands of the...

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Posted 14 years ago4 minute read

Sequential consultations – Current practice may struggle to deal effectively with major service changes

There may well be too many consultations. And they often overlap. But in truth they just reflect the reality that...

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Posted 14 years ago4 minute read

Let someone else do it! – Can you outsource public engagement?

The Government would like to achieve a culture-change. It feels – rightly or wrongly – that people are fed up...

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Posted 14 years ago4 minute read

Open Public services … possibly! – 5 things you need to know about the Government’s new blueprint for public services

Most people won’t read the Government’s White Paper Open Public Services. And if they did, they might struggle to understand...

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Posted 14 years ago4 minute read

Being awkward – Is the ‘Awkward Squad’ an inevitable feature of a contentious consultation?

Experienced organisers of consultations are familiar with many caricatured groups of people. The phrase Usual Suspects is often used to...

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