8th Annual Conference
Community Consultation

Hard choices, engagement and localism

Wednesday 31st March 2010
The Kings Fund, London W1

Conference Themes

The success of constructive consultation will affect the lives of millions. In order to achieve this, policy makers require the optimum information through live feedback and engagement from their communities. Now more than ever, the role of policy makers is to devolve local decisions and give choice to those most affected by them.

Consultation in a cold climate is the challenge ahead.

Specifically, attending this conference will enable you to:

• Hear how leading experts are gearing up for difficult choices and consultations
• Analyse the consultation techniques that policy makers have used to make choices
• Examine how consultation techniques can enable citizens to have choices
• Guarantee that the voices of diverse minorities are heard and that the silent majority is fairly represented and engaged
• Understand how consultation with communities will evolve under “ Total Place”
• Learn how to make better use of social media and multimedia platforms
• Develop live feedback for public services – constant consultation
• Cultivate professional expertise across new techniques
• Learn from the mistakes of the last round of public service retrenchment
• Manage data and respecting privacy in consultation
• Make best use of the data and intelligence available
• Keep abreast of and understand Behaviour Change in consultation processes