Responding to consultations is one way of influencing government policy. The Women's Resource Centre helps women's organisations respond in the most effective way, co-ordinating responses and gathering a wide range of views.
Tips for women's organisations: Responding to government consultations can take a lot of time. Remember, you don’t need to answer all the questions, you can just focus on your key points, and you can raise issues that aren’t covered by the consultation questions.
Topic: Local government
Consulting body: Department for Communities and Local Government
Deadline for responses: No formal consultation period, but they are seeking responses now.
Details: Department for Communities and Local Government is consulting on the ways in which local people can be actively involved in: improving deprived areas through regeneration and promoting work and enterprise, encouraging active citizenship, improving local public services and strengthening local accountability. The focus of the consultation is on individuals rather than the voluntary and community sector and we want to ensure that women and women’s organisations are engaged and involved in shaping the priorities of local communities to ensure that gender and other equalities issues are taken into account.
Documents:
WRC response to the DCLG Unlocking the Talents of Our Community consultation (278KB) June 08
CLG's consultation document
Past briefings and consultations