Topic: Relational constitutions
“Docking in”: changing the way we act on local democracy
A guide for rethinking how local decisions get made – and the changes that we might need to make in local democracy after the pandemic.
“Docking-in”: making traditional governance fit for purpose in a hyper-localist world
More councils are starting to experiment with different forms of decision-making. The emergence of mutual aid networks at the outset of the pandemics – agile, highly local, groups of neighbours getting together at street level to offer immediate help to the vulnerable – contrasts unfavourably with the lumbering setup of the national, NHS-led volunteering scheme. […]