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Consultation, for a Change? Engaging Users and Communities in the Policy Process
In: Social policy and administration, Band 36, Heft 5, S. 516-531
ISSN: 1467-9515
The process of consultation has become integral to the development, implementation and evaluation of a raft of UK health and social policies. However, the current bewildering patchwork of area–based initiatives means that, in many localities, it is impossible to evaluate the outcomes of particular targeted initiatives, let alone make sense of local planning consultations, Best Value reviews and (multi–agency) service reviews which run concurrently. The cumulative effects of this consultation "overload" threaten to swamp both local authorities and their service users. Consul–tation is itself a crucial yet deeply problematic process. There is an official view which holds that an "old" model of consultation—often tokenistic and unrepresentative—is being replaced with a "new" one. This paper examines and challenges that view in relation to the key policy areas of housing, social services and policing. It also pays particular attention to, and problematizes, the notion of "hard–to–reach groups", which is so dominant in the discourse of consultation. The paper argues that developing appropriate tools and recognizing that consultation is a process—not an event—are essential starting points in addressing these problems. The next step is to reconcile the principles of both evidence–based policy and user–led services into a strategic (and "joined–up") framework. But, when all this is accomplished, we still need to question the political and fiscal contexts in which policy–making takes place and within which the process of consultation is itself bounded.
Consultation, for a Change? Engaging Users and Communities in the Policy Process
In: Social policy & administration: an international journal of policy and research, Band 36, Heft 5, S. 516-531
ISSN: 0037-7643, 0144-5596
Crime, Class and Corruption: The Politics of the Police
In: Policing & society: an international journal of research & policy, Band 4, Heft 2, S. 187-188
ISSN: 1043-9463
Review article : Rich Law, Poor Law: Different responses to tax and supplementary benefit fraud
In: Critical social policy: a journal of theory and practice in social welfare, Band 11, Heft 31, S. 84-85
ISSN: 1461-703X
Book Reviews
In: Sociology: the journal of the British Sociological Association, Band 25, Heft 1, S. 135-136
ISSN: 1469-8684