[Jessica Crowe]

mikelodge Wrote:I would be interested to know if anyone has done any work on the new requirements for dealing with petitions. In Calderdale, we have discussed the issue once at Scrutiny and members are interested in making some recommendations to Council about a petitions scheme.

Mike

Nottinghamshire are doing some work on this Mike - you might want to contact Matthew Garrard (see his post and my reply in the O&S Bill thread - currently the last couple of posts @30 March).

Jessica

[Steve Sienkiewicz]

more info:

Statutory guidance to support the petitions duty -http://www.communities.gov.uk/publicatio...onguidance
Government response to the consultation -http://www.communities.gov.uk/publicatio...?version=1

[Sunita Sharma]

Mike,

you might also try out the Consultation Institute. They have been actively involved in the Petition Scheme and have produced briefings.

www.consultationinstitute.org.uk

Sunita

[Matthew Garrard]

Mike amongst other things we've been looking at the discretionary areas within a petitions scheme - how many signatures are required to make a petition, trigger a debate at council and call an officer (& now executive Member) to account. Other issues of interest include what should the role of the local Member be (presenting a petition, following up on it etc), how can we manage 'appeals' to scrutiny and how might scrutiny pick up on issues from petitions.

[Josh Mynott]

I am finding it hard to focus on petitions, as everytime I do, the red mist descends and I start muttering about how the government found time tfor this daft, unecessary and misguided legislation but couldn't get it together for The Scrutiny Act That Never Was.

Grrrr