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Growing community voices
Tenant voice has been in the spotlight recently with the new report from the public enquiry being published. Whilst the bar has been raised on standards since then, top-down consultation is still lacking when it comes to pooling tacit knowledge and conversing with...

How to create a citizen-centric culture
One thing is for sure, if you’re about to embark on a system reset and develop a citizen centric culture then everybody needs to be in. While a policy refresh might help, the underpinnings of any approach should be to develop the appropriate values in the people that...

The new frontiers of democracy in the run-up to general election
The election approach is a good time to reimagine opportunities for enhanced participatory democracy under a new (or existing!) government. History tells us that most party manifestos are nothing more than aspirations, not necessarily well conceived and not...
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