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1. What do the public want from consultation? Ben Page, Director MORI Government Research 020 7347 3242 [email_address]

2. (And can we give it to them?)

6. Role of Local Members Base: 1016 Dover residents Keep you informed Q Which are the most important for local District Councillors to do? Support the local community Deal with complaints Listen to the views of local people Attend local Council meetings Represent local Council meetings Attend open meetings with local residents Hold surgeries for people with problems Don’t know

7. What Should Birmingham Councillors do? Listen to local people Deal with complaints Monitor staff Surgeries Act on local views Attend meetings Plan City-wide Base: 1545 interviews conducted with residents aged 18+, 3 Jul-17Aug ‘99

8. Image of Best Value Authorities Base: 2,488 residents aged 16+ My Council needs to make more effort to find out what local people want % Agree Q How strongly do you agree or disagree that your council . . .? Treats all types of people fairly Good value for money % Disagree Quality of Council Services good overall Too remote and impersonal Does not play important part in improving quality of local life

9. Priorities in Hampshire……... Base: 1670 Hampshire residents, aged 16+, interviewed 14 August - 11 October 1999 Q Which two or three do you think are most important for the County Council and its partners to achieve? Listening to needs of community Creating a safer community Protecting & improving environment Improving local public transport links Creating a caring & fairer society Promoting healthy living for all Improving the local economy Improving educational opportunities

11. Spiral of Silence Oh yes, they have those community forum things at the church hall every month..but hardly anyone goes What’s the point? Nothing ever happened. They just always say they don’t have enough money How do you know? I went to one the police held five years ago What was that like?

12. 0 1 2 3 4 0 20 40 60 80 Wave of Panel Research Overall Response Rate based on % of Those Originally Approached Panel Attrition Selected Telephone Recruitment Using Quotas Self-selecting Postal Recruitment Selected Face-to-face Recruitment Using Quotas

13. Problems of attrition - most marked on Panels

15. Are qualitative approaches more enjoyable?

19. But Panels can be interesting….

20. I believe I am helping the Government % Agree Q Please tell me whether you agree or disagree? It has been interesting to take part I wish I had not agreed to take part I think that the Panel is a waste of time % Disagree Base: 560 People’s Panel members, telephone, February 2000 Views on national People’s Panel Membership

22. Getting involved: what do people find most attractive

23. Becoming a Part of Decision-making: what people are in favour of is different to what they actually do Base: All respondents (1545) Opinion Surveys % Support Local Referendum Residents groups Neighbourhood Forums % Oppose Ward Advisor Board Elections for Mayor Council meeting Ward sub-comm Internet Conference

24. Preferences - led by familiarity? Q How if at all, has Hertsmere BC asked for your views on local services or issues, in the last year or so? At a meeting of a group I belong to At a meeting with a councillor At a meeting with staff Via a community group Via a postal questionnaire Via a focus group At a public meeting In a survey like this one Via a panel of residents % asked Base: All residents (1,021)

25. Preferences - led by familiarity? Q How if at all, has Hertsmere BC asked for your views on local services or issues, in the last year or so? And which, if any, would you be interested in taking part in to give your views? At a meeting of a group I belong to At a meeting with a councillor At a meeting with staff Via a community group Via a postal questionnaire Via a focus group At a public meeting In a survey like this one Via a panel of residents % asked % interested Base: All residents (1,021)

26. Community Partnerships Don’t know/no opinion Yes, support No, oppose Support Q In principle, would you support or oppose extending Community Partnerships to other parts of the Borough? Base: All residents (1,021)

27. Community Partnerships Don’t know/no opinion Yes, support No, oppose Support Q In principle, would you support or oppose extending Community Partnerships to other parts of the Borough? Q And would you personally be interested in getting involved? Base: All residents (1,021)

28. Community Partnerships Don’t know/no opinion Yes, support No, oppose Support Involvement Q In principle, would you support or oppose extending Community Partnerships to other parts of the Borough? No Depends Yes Q And would you personally be interested in getting involved? Don’t know Base: All respondents who support the idea (835) Base: All residents (1,021) Actual Proportion - 2%

29. But who wants to get involved anyway?

30. Involvement With the Council Q Which of these statements come closest to your own attitudes towards Leicester City Council? Base: 1,500 Leicester residents aged 16+ I like to know what the Council is doing but am happy to let them get on with their job I'm not interested in what Council does as long as they do their job I would like to have more say in what the Council does I already work for/involved with Council I'm not interested in what the Council does, or whether they do their job

31. Involvement With the Council Base: All residents Authority A Authority B Authority C Want to be more involved

32. Involvement With the Council Base: All residents Authority A Authority B Authority C Want to be more involved Net satisfaction

33. The Disgruntled…. % Wanting more of a say Base: 1,249 residents, aged 16+, interviewed 24 June - 5 August 1999 Total Satisfied Dissatisfied Well informed Not well informed Agree good services Disagree good services Satisfied with area Dissatisfied with area

34. Depends on perceived relevance ...

35. Involvement Q In which, if any, of the following services or issues would you personally like to have greater involvement? Base: 2,488 residents aged 16+ Education services Leisure services Tackling crime Meeting needs of young people Council Housing Social Services How Councils spend their money Cleaning/Environmental services

36. Key Points

38. Questions? Comments?