What happens when consultees want a much wider debate than the consultation scope allows? Can you question the effectiveness of Regulation? People in Lancashire are upset. Many of them have […]
Consultation and the fear of ‘fracking’ Read More »
It is time for our national politicians to take a closer interest in public consultations. Politicians are quite ambivalent about consultation. When in Opposition, they complain bitterly that there is
Why Parliament must take notice Read More »
Janice Turner is a respected columnist for ‘The Times’ and last week she turned her fire on Keith Vaz MP. Her criticism was not his personal behaviour per se but
The recent Tobacco industry Judicial Review helps us to handle battles between the ‘experts’. Many public consultations revolve around matters of strong professional disagreements, and one of the biggest challenges
New insights for the interpretation of conflicting consultation responses Read More »
Just when Institute members and others left for annual leave in late July, comes a High Court judgment to worry those who have to brief Councillors, Members of public bodies,
Due process is not a term we use much in the UK. We certainly observe it but we do not use the expression as frequently as our friends in the
The hurly-burly of politics is often, in reality, a somewhat remote process. Journalists eager to break tomorrow’s story rather than probe and assess yesterday’s can whip up a synthetic excitement in what they
Counting to Ten – Is consultation at its most valuable when providing a breathing space Read More »
We have always regarded a referendum as a form of a consultation – and last week’s excitement illustrated many of the pitfalls familiar to public engagement practitioners. The in/out question has many critics
Commentators had predicted for a while that the Government was intent on further reducing – if not eliminating – the role of local authorities in running schools. So it was
A few years ago, IPSOS-MORI started publishing comparisons between various statistics of social or political significance and people’s perceptions of the same numbers; they repeated the exercise in many countries.
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