The duty to involve

Submitted by Daniel Fluskey on Tue, 19/04/2011 - 11:06

Hi,

Some of you may have seen the Best Value guidance released for consultation by DCLG on 13 April.

One of the proposals in there is to repeal the Duty to Inolve, and the Duty to Prepare a Sustainable Community Strategy that were set out in the guidance Creating Strong, Safe and Prosperous Communities

The Duty to Involve meant that local authorities had to 'take those steps they consider appropriate to involve representatives of local persons in the exercise of any of their functions, where they consider that it is appropriate to do so'. This included providing information, consulting, and 'involving in another way'.

In the spirit of 'localism', the imposed duties and formal partnership structures have been ended. But how much is being lost by repealing the Duty to Involve local people in decision making?

It would be great to hear your thoughts - do you think repealing the Duty to Involve is right?

Submitted by Tim Hughes on Wed, 20/04/2011 - 10:57.

Hi!

At Involve we’re collecting views on the Duty to Involve and plan to submit them to the Department for Communities and Local Government as a consultation response, so please get in touch with us if you’d like your views to be included in our submission.

We’ve also written a couple of blogs on the subject, one by me arguing that the Duty should be repealed (http://www.involve.org.uk/my-two-cents-on-the-duty/) and one by Edward Andersson arguing it should be made more specific (http://www.involve.org.uk/should-duty-to-involve-be-repealed/).

And I’m collecting links to various blogs on the topic, which you can find here:http://bit.ly/hmG6fA . Please let me know if I’ve missed any.

Submitted by Amelia on Mon, 16/05/2011 - 17:01.