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Book review – Public consultation and Community Involvement in Planning A Twenty-First Century Guide

Public consultation and Community Involvement in Planning A Twenty-First Century Guide Penny Norton and Martin Hughes Routledge 2017 This is a much-needed book! Partly, the Planning profession needs it because it has not always been as eager to encourage public consultation as our law-makers have intended … And partly because a wide variety of stakeholders […]

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“Is fear of public engagement holding the NHS back?” – the Institute comments on this excellent Healthwatch article

Rhion Jones writes – Jane Mordue, Interim Chair of Healthwatch wrote a first-class article last week that strongly makes the case for people to become involved and seek to influence the STP plans that are now being published (or ‘leaked’!) all over England. Her analysis of the vicious circle that leads to ‘communities feeling betrayed’

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Budget Blues – Managing through the likely implications of the Budget requires a talent for public engagement

The nation holds its breath, awaiting the worst. But, in truth, we know what’s coming, for politicians have spared us few details in a very visible softening-up process that seems to have taken several weeks. And the main messages are that the deficit is huge; it’s all the fault of the previous Government; and that

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Toolkit Time – Producing a Consultation Toolkit is a sound investment but needs to complement rather than replace traditional staff training

Even the smallest Local Authority today finds itself engaged in multiple public or stakeholder consultations. Many of these are departmentally-based, and because they are closely associated with the normal day-to-day work of the function, it has become normal practice for policy or customer service staff within these specialisms to absorb the work of organising consultations

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