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Revision as of 17:26, 29 April 2018

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This article focuses on information specific to United Kingdom. Please see our Community involvement page for a topic overview.

Campaigns

Unlock Democracy, campaigns for a more participatory democracy in Britain. It continues to work with and support other organisations such as Local Works on the Sustainable Communities Act. W

Resources

  • Heading Upstream, Barnsley's Innovations for Social Justice, 2017 centreforwelfarereform.org
  • Community Chartering Network
  • In This Together, 11 July 2011, neweconomics.org, tells the stories of people who are improving public services by working with the people who use them and delivering public services in a radically different way. It describes a range of practical projects and includes personal testimonies from individuals directly involved. These examples have at their heart equal and reciprocal relationships between professionals, people using services, their families and neighbours – an approach known as ‘co-production’.
  • Open and accountable local government: plain English guide, GOV.UK - A guide for the press and public on attending and reporting meetings of local government.
  • Placecheck
  • WriteToThem provides contact details for elected representatives at all levels of UK government, and users can send messages to them directly from the site. W
  • This is the #CitizenShift, by New Citizenship Project

Funding

  • Local Trust, a place-based funder. "We work with 150 Big Local areas, where people are making their communities even better places to live."

Maps

The Civic Crowd, aims to map initiatives and ideas for citizen-powered change, providing an open public domain resource

DCLG Community Rights

Research

We’re all in this together: harnessing user and community co - production of public outcomes, Tony Bovaird and Elke Loeffler, June 2013 birmingham.ac.uk

Democratic Audit, independent research organisation, established as a not-for-profit company, and based at the London School of Economics. "Our core objective is to advance education, and to undertake and promote research into, the quality and effectiveness of UK democracy."

Video

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News and comment

2018

Bringing Open Government to Local Governments, Jan 29 [1]

2017

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Barking and Dagenham: Viewpoint: Imagine a future that works – for Every One, by Every One, Nov 30 [2]

The Festival of Everyone announces full programme of events across the borough this Saturday, Nov 24 [3]

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Scotland: Communities to be given 'direct voice' in local authorities' spending decisions, Oct 29 [4]

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Why We're Bringing A Hackathon To Barking and Dagenham, Sep 29 [5]

Democracy? There’s an app for that – the tech upstarts trying to ‘hack’ British politics, Jun 6 [6]

Co-operative places: the five foundations of local change, May 19 [7]

What if you had real power to shape where you live in a practical way? May 8 [8]

Involve’s new strategy – how we intend to build a democracy that works for everyone, May 2 [9]

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Somerset: From the pub to the Town Council: on how citizens took control of local politics, Peter MacFadyen, Apr 6 [10]

Expansion of Community Organisers Programme, Mar 2 [11]

Three Rules For Helping Rebuild Communities, Feb 17 [12]

2016

Community involvement is marginal in Britain, data shows, Jun 30 [13]

2015

NHS Citizen: Looking back on the Citizens’ Assembly, December 9 [14] On Wednesday 25th November the first official NHS Citizens’ Assembly took place at the ExCel Centre in London. This national Assembly brought together over 250 citizens with the Board of NHS England and senior NHS staff to discuss and look for solutions to 5 issues affecting healthcare in England. These issues were:

  1. Preventing premature deaths
  2. Comprehensive psychosocial approaches to mental health
  3. Improving health outcomes for looked-after children and young people
  4. Support for people with dementia post-diagnosis
  5. Transparency in Clinical Commissioning Group decision making

Engagement at the local level should be citizen-led rather than institution-led, October 28 [15]

Big Society has failed, three year Civil Exchange study concludes, January 20 [16]

2014

Isabel Carlisle on making space for Nature: the Community Charter, September 17 [17]

Beyond Co-production - Asset Based Community Development (ABCD), May 23 [18]

2013

Participatory Budgeting: tough questions and real answers, May 20 [19]

2012

The left must abandon the idea of change from above, December 20 [20]

An imaginary open letter: To those who would ‘engage’ us…, August 9, By Mike [21]

Co-production: time to break out of the public service corral, Julian Dobson, January [22]

2011

Westminster World Heritage Site and Parliament Square a national disgrace, Hansard Society, October 25 [23] New vision putting citizen and visitor at its heart needed.

Councils and hyperlocal ‘bloggers’: It’s the council system which needs changing, not how people are allowed to cover them, David Higgerson, February 23 [24]

Eric Pickles: Citizen journalists and bloggers should be let in to public council meetings, 23 February [25]

"If nothing else the transparency that the social web embodies and that government says it wants to deliver with #opendata means that we will no longer be able to hide our policy programmes in big black boxes that we only open up on launch day" Catherine Howe, January 23 [26]

See also

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