How will councils ensure the public become involved as it can already be difficult to get the public to e.g. stand for election to a parish council?
Yes it is true, people are fed up with democracy, as the recent Power Inquiry (chaired by Baroness Helena Kennedy) showed. However that same (substantial) study into Britain’s democracy also showed that most people will get involved if they see that democracy is meaningful, i.e. if they can have real influence over decisions which affect their life. This Act provides a mechanism for doing that like never before in law.
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