Consultation and Engagement Toolkit
Welcome to Barnet’s Consultation and Engagement Toolkit
This toolkit provides an easy to understand step by step guide, covering the key points that should be considered when carrying out consultation and engagement. You should refer to this when planning and carrying out any consultation and engagement with our residents and other key stakeholders.
The toolkit provides ten easy steps to help you plan your consultation and engagement activity, and is structured so that you can ‘plug in’ to the different steps depending at what stage you are at with your consultation and engagement activity. It contains basic advice and simple tools to enable you to consult and engage effectively. The tools are embedded within the ten steps but you can also refer to these as and when you need them under the tools section (in the document) and on the right in the document library.
The ten s to planning your consultation and engagement activity are outlined below, under each step there is further guidance and tools within our toolkit.
Steps 1 - 7: Planning consultation and engagement
Step 1: Define your aims and objectives
Step 2: Decide what to consult and engage on
Step 3: Decide when and how long to consult and engage for
Step 4: Decide who to consult and engage
Step 5: Decide on which method/s to use
Step 6: Develop a consultation and engagement plan
Step 7: Design and sign off of your consultation and engagement materials
Checklist before you consult and engage
Steps 8-10 After consultation and engagement
Step 8: Analyse and clearly report the results
Step 9: Feedback the results and how you have acted
Step 10: Evaluate the success of consultation and engagement process