They hold Cobra meetings in the North Pole.  Few people know this. But last week, whilst the rest of the world played party politics, Father Christmas convened a COBRA meeting…

The umbrella term and acronym, ‘BAME’ has taken the effect of categorising a diverse range of minority ethnic groups, such as African, Caribbean, South, and East Asian descent (and more),…

And that’s it. Parliament is in recess, and after I’ve pressed publish on this I’ll be going off on a long Christmas holiday. But, as is often the case, there’s…

At the end of 2019, I wrote an article reflecting on the first full year of the Institute’s e-Learning offering. As we recently passed the milestone of 1000 unique students,…

It’s the time of year when the Government decides how much (or, more usually, how little) money it is going to give to local authorities for their local government finance…

To view the official press release, please click here. The Consultation Institute (tCI), a global leader in consultation best practice, and the National Democratic Institute (NDI), a non-governmental organisation that…

By Peter McColl The planning system is how we, as a society, decide what gets built where. It is one of the ways in which many citizens engage in our…

One of the key pieces of legislation currently going through the parliamentary process is the Governments new Elections Bill. The Bill is, according to the Government designed to strengthen the…

By Rhion Jones As the Health & Care Bill continues its passage through Parliament, many of us are looking anxiously at what is, at the time of writing, a proposed…