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What is consultation?

Consultation is a process of dialogue leading to a decision. Consultation involves:

• Passing information and receiving comments
• Seeking opinions on options before decisions are reached
• Seeking to increase the involvement of local people, communities, businesses, voluntary sector etc. in important decisions which impact on them
• Listening to and learning from local people and communities

We involve the following in our consultation exercises:

• Service users and customers
• Council Tax payers
• Businesses
• Older People
• Younger People
• Ethnic minorities
• People with disabilities
• People on low incomes

Objectives of consultation

The Council carries out consultation to ensure that the decisions made are the right ones for the community. Putting local people at the heart of the decision making process is key, with elected Members and the Council taking the views of consultees very seriously.

Our objectives for consultation are:

• Helping the council to plan services better to give the service that the public wants.
• Enabling the council to prioritise services and make better use of resources.
• Alerting the council to problems more quickly so that it can put things right.
• Using different techniques to make consultation as effective as possible.
• Encouraging local people to participate in consultation to help influence the delivery of services.
• Taking account of the public's views in the decisions we make.
• Improving existing ways of involving communities, especially hard to reach groups.

Please click on the file on the right to view our public engagement strategy.

Warwickshire County Council Consultation Database

If you are interested in finding out about up and coming consultations across the County which you can be involved in, or see results of previous surveys, please see the County's Consultation Database.

You can tell us which sorts of consultations you are interested in that are being undertaken across the County, and when a relevant consultation is planned, you will be contacted by e-mail and told all about it. To subscribe to this service, click on Email Alerts

For further information please contact the Consultation Officer on 01789 260118 or by email at consultation@stratford-dc.gov.uk or by fax on 01789 260777.

Downloads:
SDC Community Engagement Strategy 2009 to 2011 (258KB PDF) | Help with PDFs

External links:
Consultation Database | Consultation Database Email Alerts

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