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The Government’s new Principles – How useful are the Government’s 2016 Consultation Principles?
In 2012, the Coalition Government took us all by surprise and tore up the 2008 Code of Practice on consultations and replaced them with a hastily-drafted set of Principles. Practitioners huffed and puffed; in the Institute we produced a rather heavyweight commentary which we published as a Briefing Paper.
Forgive us for having a sense of deja-vu, but in January a new set of Principles was published by the Cabinet Office, but many of the circumstances are different:
- In 2012, many working on public engagement had grown accustomed to the previous Guidelines and were sorry to see them go
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