Last month’s National Audit Office report on Local authority governance makes scary reading. At a time when Councils in England have suffered a 29% real-terms reduction in spending, the NAO…

They can be among your fiercest critics. Or worse. They can appear hell bent on disrupting the consultation you have painstakingly organised. Opponents of proposals contained in public consultations vary…

The part consultation plays in mitigation strategies We have all learnt to be a bit careful believing what we read on the side of a bus! But what struck us…

Councils committed in NHS England’s new blueprint The main thing to note about the much-vaunted Ten-year-plan for the NHS in England is that it confirms an existing direction of travel…

President launches nationwide consultation. We can’t be absolutely certain that President Macron has been reading The Politics of Consultation, but someone clearly has. In a textbook response to a political crisis,…

14 January was the deadline for responses to the Government’s consultation on its policy paper Planning reform: supporting the high street and increasing the delivery of new homes, which proposes…

How the current environment affects the way we will engage with stakeholders As we enter 2019, there are lots of worried people around. Parliamentarians scurrying about like headless poultry. Councillors…

The 20 most popular articles from Institute Directors in 2018 When the weekly Consultation Institute newsletter is distributed on Friday afternoons, we can monitor how many clicks each article receives.…

As managers and consultors across the globe will acknowledge – it is hard to please everyone during a public consultation. We frequently have questions from clients across sectors regarding that…