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Posted 14 years ago5 minute read

Engagement ‘domains’ – Different professions and different environments have cultures, values and behaviour patterns all of their own

The term ‘domain’ originally meant a piece of land – a territory. Today we use it in a very different...

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Posted 14 years ago4 minute read

Ballot-box participation – What are the implications of consultation through the ballot-box?

If the Localism Bill is taken at face-value, then local Councils are going to be busy organising a lot of...

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Posted 15 years ago4 minute read

Beware re-organisations – They’re not all bad, but the consequences for public engagement can often be serious

Re-organisations have a bad name. It is easy to rail against them, and to criticise them for achieving few of...

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Scrapping the ‘duty to involve’ – What difference would it make?

It only came into force in April 2009; no-one can say for definite whether it has made any difference. Yet...

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Risk Assessment – Six issues to bear in mind when organising consultations

For a process that essentially exists to minimise the risk of mistakes by public bodies or large organisations, the practice...

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Are options optional? – Some consultations have options, but many don’t; what’s best?

The huge variety of consultations makes it difficult to prescribe hard and fast rules for all aspects of the process,...

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