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Current Consultations |
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Consultation |
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Description and Deadline for Responses |
Intention to
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Joint Strategic Needs Assessments and
joint health and well-being strategies – draft guidance |
Views are now
being sought on the draft guidance. Deadline:
17/02/12 |
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The purpose of
this consultation is to gather views on the Department for
Education's revised exclusion guidance document and
regulations relating to exclusion. This includes proposals
for how regulations will be applied to Academies, including
Free Schools. Deadline:
17/02/12 |
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Care Quality Commission: Update to
fees 2012-13 |
The CQC
has launched a
consultation on the fees
it propose to charge
Primary Trust (PCT)
providers, the Health
Protection Agency (HPA),
NHS Blood and Transplant
(NHSBT) and NHS Direct (NHSD)
from 1 April 2012.
Deadline:
20/02/12
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New requirements on governing bodies to share information
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The proposals aim to help
schools be better informed when recruiting new teachers.
Under the new plans Governing bodies in maintained schools
will have to pass on information to prospective employers,
on request, about whether a teacher is or has been subject
to capability procedures. Deadline: 24/02/12 |
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This consultation seeks views on the
Government’s ideas for reforming support for mortgage
interest following the introduction of Universal Credit from
2013. Deadline:
27/02/12 |
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The
purpose of this consultation is
to seek views on proposed
amendments to Section 46 of the
Environmental Protection Act
1990, which sets out the
penalties which local
authorities may apply to
householders who present their
waste incorrectly for
collection. Deadline:
09/03/12
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Fire and Rescue National Framework for
England - a consultation |
This consultation seeks views on the draft National
Framework's priorities and objectives for fire and rescue
authorities in England in connection with the discharge of
their functions. Clearly setting out the role of fire and
rescue authorities in delivering national resilience, the
draft National Framework sets out how they will work
individually, collectively and with government to ensure
capacity is in place to respond to major incidents.
Deadline: 19/03/12 |
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Early Years Professional Status
Standards Review
Consultation on the revised draft standards
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The
Children’s Workforce Development Council
has been remitted by the Department for Education to
undertake a review of the Early Years Professional Status (EYPS)
standards. The aim is to produce a revised set of Standards
for implementation by training providers' delivering the
EYPS
from September 2012. Deadline:
23/03/12 |
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Consultation on
changes to the Standard Assessment Procedure |
The SAP is used to underpin the delivery of a number of key
climate change initiatives, and will also in the future be
used to help deliver the Green Deal, the Energy Company
Obligation and the Renewable Heat Incentive. The proposed
changes aim to ensure that the SAP continues to meet both
existing and new user requirements. Deadline: 28/03/12 |
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Consultation on
new guidance on social housing allocations and on draft
regulations relating to the housing needs of Armed Forces
personnel
Draft Armed
Forces Qualification Regulations 2012
Draft Armed
Forces Additional Preference Regulations 2012 |
The guidance is aimed at enabling local authorities to
manage their own waiting lists, and making it easier for
them to move existing social tenants to more suitable
accommodation, in accordance with the provisions of the
Localism Act 2011. It also encourages authorities to make
use of the existing flexibilities within the allocation
legislation to ensure that social homes go to people who
need and deserve them the most. Deadline: 30/03/12 |
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The
government has launched this consultation to ask for
views on whether the current cross-government
definition of domestic violence should be widened.
It also seeks views on whether the current
definition is being applied consistently across
government, and if it is understood by
practitioners, victims and perpetrators.
Deadline: 30/03/12
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Consultation on
proposed changes to legislation around flag-flying
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The proposed changes aim to find
a way of preserving and encouraging flag-flying traditions,
including reducing or eliminating the cost of applying for
consent, while at the same time maintaining safeguards
against the unregulated display of flags that could affect
local amenity or cause offence. Deadline: 30/03/12 |
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The Government
has produced this document to develop a
discussion and invite you to submit your
views on a new system of prioritising and
funding for local major transport schemes. A
new system, once in place, will enable
construction to begin after the end of the
current Spending Review period – 2014/15.
Deadline: 02/04/12
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Inspection of
adoption support agencies |
The key proposals within this consultation
by Ofsted, include a reduction in the number of judgements
that inspectors make from the current 13 to just four -
outcomes for service users; quality of service provision;
safeguarding of children, young people and families; and,
leadership and management. The consultation also includes
plans to reduce the length of notice given before an
inspection, from eight weeks to 10 days. Deadline:
03/04/12 |
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Social Housing
Fraud - Consultation |
The proposals aim to increase the deterrent
to tenants to commit fraud and the ability of landlords to
detect and prosecute those who do so. They also aim to
extend local authorities' powers of prosecution, allow for
compensatory payments to be made to landlords, and remove
the loopholes that allow those abusing their tenancies to
retain them. Deadline: 04/04/12 |
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Dealing with the problems of late
night drinking |
This consultation is about
two measures in the Police
Reform and Social
Responsibility Act 2011 that
will be implemented through
regulations: early morning
restriction orders and the
late night levy. Deadline:
10/04/12
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A public
online consultation has been launched asking for views on
the implementation of two new powers desigined to help
communities deal with problems associated with late night
drinking. Deadline:
10/04/12 |
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The consultation seeks views on elements of
how raising the participation age will work in practice - by
consulting on the policies that will form the secondary
legislation. It covers aspects such as the definition of
residency; the definition of full-time education; any wider
ways of working that (when combined with part-time study)
could be considered as participating, and the amount and use
of any fines.
Deadline:
13/04/12 |
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The
Department for Communities and Local Government is
consulting on a proposed policy statement for Part 2 of the
Localism Act 2011. Part 2 of the Act is designed to
incentivise public authorities to meet their European
obligations and avoid any infraction related fines.
Deadline: 22/04/12 |
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Getting it right for victims and
witnesses |
Part
1 sets out the Government’s
proposed approach to ensuring that
victims and witnesses get the support
they need, both to overcome the
consequences of crime and to participate
fully in the criminal justice process.Part
2 sets out how the Government
proposes to reform the Criminal Injuries
Compensation Scheme (CICS) to protect
compensation payments for those most
seriously injured while removing less
serious injuries like sprains from the
scheme and restricting payments to those
with criminal convictions. Deadline:
22/04/12
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The Department
for Transport is inviting views on proposals
to remove the current need for the Secretary
for State to approve local authority
applications to run ‘permit schemes’, which
enable authorities to better manage street
works. These works are a necessary fact of
life and essential to give and support the
utility and transport services on which
individuals and businesses depend, but they
also cause significant disruption to road
users and local communities. The Government
is determined to cut the adverse impacts of
these works. Deadline: 25/04/12
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Proposals
for amended inspection arrangements for
maintained schools and academies,
further education and skills and initial
teacher education from September 2012.
Deadline: 03/05/12
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Consultation on legislative changes to
firearms control |
The
consultation is seeking views on whether to make
changes to the current sentencing framework for the
illegal importation of firearms.
It
also seeks views on whether to introduce new
firearms legislation targeted at individuals who
supply firearms (or possess them with the intent
to supply) to the criminal market and if we do,
what would be an appropriate sentence.
Deadline: 08/05/12
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Office of Fair Trade (OFT) Call for
Evidence - Rural Communities |
The OFT has launched a call for
evidence on remote communities. The purpose of this is to
seek the views of residents in remote communities to improve
the OFT's understanding of how remoteness effects both
consumers and businesses. Deadline: Summer 2012 |
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Responses made to recent
Consultations |
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Consultation |
Link to response |
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The Department of Health
requested feedback should be sent by Friday 17 February
2012. Guidance on joint strategic needs assessments and
health and wellbeing strategies. Calderdale's Health &
Wellbeing Board responded on behalf of Calderdale in
February 2012.
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Response to
the Proposals for Business Rate Retention. The Head of
Finance at CMBC responded in October 2011:
- Covering letter
- Business rates
- Technical papers |
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Response to consultation on allocation options for
distribution of additional funding to local authorities for
Local HealthWatch; Primary Care Trust deprivation of liberty
safeguards submitted by the Locality and
Commissioning Manager in September 2011. |
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A public consultation on the
government's UK influenza pandemic preparedness strategy
took place between 16 December 2010 and 17 June 2011.
Calderdale Pandemic Influenza
Planning Committee responded on behalf of Calderdale.
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The response sent by
Calderdale's Health & Social Care Partnership Board on the
White Paper, 'Healthy Lives, Healthy People', (the
consultation ran until 31/03/11)
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The response sent by Calderdale
to the consultation on the
Code of recommended practice for local authorities on data
transparency
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Archive of previous
consultations |
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