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Have Your Say: Local and Central Government Consultations
This page lists some of the current consultations (unless otherwise stated consultations finish at 23:59 on the date indicated).
To explore other consultations you can look to these two links:
Bracknell Forest at: https://consult.bracknell-forest.gov.uk/kse/
National Consultations at: https://www.gov.uk/search/policy-papers-and-consultations?content_store_document_type%5B%5D=open_consultations&order=updated-newest
If there are other consultations that you know of that should be included, or you want to be kept informed of certain topics, please get in touch with Bob Miller at bob.miller@ntlworld.com.
Local Consultations | ||
| Consultation | Description | Closing Date |
| Parks Satisfaction Survey | To collect feedback from residents and visitors about Bracknell Forest parks and open spaces. | 31 December 2029 03:17PM |
| Growing Stronger Communities | The Community Resilience and Cohesion Partnership is developing its 10-year Communities Strategy to build strong, connected, cohesive and healthy communities in Bracknell Forest. This strategy will focus on local identities and actions to foster a supportive environment where everyone can thrive. | 8 September 2025 9am |
| Early Help Assessment |
Further to our recent meeting with regards to assessing the impact and effectiveness of the Early Help assessment (EHA), process for children and families, partners and the organisation. We would like to ask for a few minutes of your time to complete a survey in order for us to strengthen multi-agency collaboration and provide early intervention for families. Feedback on the assessment, plan and review paperwork and how we can improve. |
3 September 2025 |
| All-age exploitation strategy | This strategy sets out the commitment of Bracknell Forest Community Safety Partnership (CSP) and Bracknell Forest Safeguarding Board (BFSB) to stand together against exploitation in Bracknell Forest. At the heart of this strategy is an ambition to prevent exploitation happening to residents of all ages, support those who are experiencing it, learn from those who have survived it and stop those who are perpetrating it. | 14 September 2025 10:00PM |
| All-age integrated carers strategy: annual impact review survey 2025 - For young carers (ages 17 and under) | This survey is for all young carers who live in Bracknell Forest. A young carer is someone under the age of 18 who cares for a friend or family member. | 19 September 2025 |
| All-age integrated carers strategy: annual impact review survey 2025 - For adults 18+ | This survey is for all unpaid adult carers who live in Bracknell Forest. An unpaid carer may be a family member, young carer, friend or neighbour. An unpaid carer can receive carer's allowance. However, they cannot work for an organisation as a carer for the person they support. | 19 September 2025 |
| Bracknell Forest Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment Consultation | Pharmaceutical Needs Assessments (PNAs) show the pharmaceutical services needed for an area. They help the NHS decide on applications for new pharmacies, and for the NHS and local authorities when considering changes to services at existing ones. PNAs must be updated every three years. Bracknell Forest Council (BFC) is currently looking at the borough’s PNA for 2025 to 2028, which is now being consulted on before being finalised. | 21 September 2025 |
| All-age integrated autism strategy: public consultation | This survey is designed to understand whether Bracknell Forest residents are in agreement with the priorities and vision proposed in our new all-age integrated autism strategy. | 21 October 2025 |
Central Government Consultations | ||
| Strengthening leaseholder protections over charges and services: consultation | The Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024 brought in a range of measures to improve home ownership for millions of leaseholders in England and Wales. These measures include increasing transparency of service charges and building insurance policies, as well as tackling unjustified litigation costs. This consultation seeks views on how to implement these new requirements through secondary legislation, which will help leaseholders to better scrutinise and challenge unfair fees and charges, as well as the reasonableness of the services they pay for. | 26 September 2025 |
| Consultation on the International Council for Harmonisation (ICH) E21 Guideline on the Inclusion of Pregnant and Breast-feeding Individuals in Clinical Trials | Pregnant and breast-feeding people are commonly excluded from clinical trials of new medicines. Consequently, many medicines have sparse information to allow informed decision making on the benefits and risks of using a medicine during pregnancy or breast-feeding. To address this, a new guideline (E21) has been prepared by an Expert Working Group (EWG) of the International Council for Harmonisation of Technical Requirements for Pharmaceuticals for Human Use (ICH). | 5 September 2025 |
| Draft guidance for businesses on price transparency | The draft guidance illustrates how the price transparency provisions may apply in practice and is intended to help traders to comply with them. | 8 September 2025 |
| Waste batteries: appropriate measures for permitted facilities | The proposed guidance aims to set out clear standards for the design and operation of permitted facilities that store or treat separate collections of waste batteries and ensure that they are applied consistently across the waste sector in order to protect the environment. | 8 September 2025 |
| Consultation on a reformed Decent Homes Standard for social and privately rented homes | The consultation aims to update the Decent Homes Standard which currently applies to social housing. The new standard will also apply to privately rented housing. Every tenant deserves a home that is safe, warm, and decent. The reformed Decent Homes Standard will set out clearly what tenants should expect from their landlords and when it will be implemented. | 10 September 2025 |
| Improving the Energy Efficiency of Socially Rented Homes in England | This consultation is an important step in ensuring that every tenant has a decent, warm and comfortable home. We are considering options to raise energy efficiency standards in the domestic social rented sector to make homes easier to heat, tackling fuel poverty and lowering carbon emissions. | 10 September 2025 |
| Public Procurement: Growing British industry, jobs and skills - consultation on further reforms to public procurement | The proposals in this consultation aim to build on the changes introduced in the Procurement Act 2023 to ensure that public procurement plays its full role in delivering the Government’s industrial strategy and fostering a resilient economy that supports British businesses and creates good jobs in communities across the country. These reforms will enhance the UK’s economic resilience and strengthen supply chains in line with the Government’s industrial strategy. They will open up more opportunities for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and voluntary, community, and social enterprises (VCSEs), which are vital for driving the UK economy. This approach will enable public procurement to advance the national interest while respecting the UK’s international trade commitments. | 5 September 2025 |
| Exposure drafts: UK Sustainability Reporting Standards | As part of the Mansion House package in November 2024, the government set out the steps that it is taking to establish a world-leading sustainable finance framework that delivers credible and decision-useful sustainability-related financial information to the financial markets. The UK Sustainability Reporting Standards (UK SRS) will serve as the foundation for this framework. | 17 September 2025 |
| Climate-related transition plan requirements | The government committed to mandating “UK-regulated financial institutions (including banks, asset managers, pension funds and insurers) and FTSE 100 companies to develop and implement credible transition plans that align with the 1.5°C goal of the Paris Agreement”. | 17 September 2025 |
| Assurance of sustainability reporting | As part of the Mansion House package in November 2024, the government set out the steps it is taking to establish a world-leading sustainable finance framework that delivers credible and decision-useful sustainability-related financial information to the financial markets. A high-quality and competitive sustainability assurance market is critical to this mission. | 17 September 2025 |
| Modernising and improving the administration of council tax | We are seeking views on the administration of council tax including: changing the ways council tax is billed, collected and enforced modernising the support available in the system supporting councils to improve efficiency | 12 September 2025 |
| Private parking code of practice | The College of Policing is seeking views on its updated operations and response authorised professional practice (APP) that will help police forces respond to emergencies and major incidents in the most effective way possible. | 5 September 2025 |
| Private parking code of practice | The College of Policing is seeking views on its updated operations and response authorised professional practice (APP) that will help police forces respond to emergencies and major incidents in the most effective way possible. | 5 September 2025 |
| Smart metering policy framework post 2025 | We’re consulting on proposals to set the policy framework for energy suppliers to deliver service improvements by ensuring smart meters operate as they should, and to continue installing smart meters after 31 December 2025, when the existing annual installation targets come to an end. | 3 October 2025 |
| Scheme design for bill discounts for new transmission network infrastructure | We're seeking views on scheme design for a bill discount scheme to directly benefit people living close to new and significantly upgraded electricity transmission infrastructure. | 26 September 2025 |
| Extend medicines responsibilities for allied health professions | This consultation seeks views on extending medicines responsibilities for paramedics, physiotherapists, operating department practitioners and diagnostic radiographers. | 28 October 2025 |
| Late payments: tackling poor payment practices | We are seeking views on legislative measures which address late, long and disputed business-to-business payments, and the use of retention clauses in construction contracts. | 23 October 2025 |
| Expanding the information sharing powers in Part 5 (chapter one) of the Digital Economy Act 2017 to support passported benefits and reduce fuel poverty | We are seeking views on expanding the information sharing powers in Part 5 (chapter one) of the Digital Economy Act 2017 to support passported benefits and reduce fuel poverty. | 23 September 2025 |
| Green Paper: Future of Post Office | This is a public consultation that seeks views on the future of the Post Office, from the services it provides, how we modernise and strengthen the network, through to how we change the culture and the way in which the Post Office is managed. Responses to this consultation will be used to understand what customers, communities and postmasters would like to see from a modern Post Office, to help shape the company’s future. | 6 October 2025 |
| Consumer-led flexibility: consumer engagement | We’re seeking feedback on the best approach to engage consumers on consumer-led flexibility to help optimise and sustain uptake, and want to determine the appropriate role for government and other organisations as a part of that. | 19 September 2025 |
| Changing the way government allocates Disabled Facilities Grant funding to local authorities in England | We are seeking views on proposals to change the way government allocates funding for the Disabled Facilities Grant (DFG) to local authorities in England. | 16 September 2025 |
| Automated passenger services: permitting scheme | Seeks views on the proposed automated passenger services statutory instrument (SI) to support the deployment of commercial self-driving pilots. | 28 September 2025 |
| Digital justice system: inclusion framework and pre-action model | The Online Procedure Rule Committee (OPRC) invites feedback from the public and key stakeholders on its draft inclusion framework and pre-action model. It marks an important milestone—not only for the committee, but for all those committed to strengthening access to justice across civil, family, and tribunal proceedings. The OPRC is committed to ensuring that a wide range of perspectives are heard, valued, and reflected in the final approach. | 19 September 2025 |
| Strengthening leaseholder protections over charges and services: consultation | The Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024 brought in a range of measures to improve home ownership for millions of leaseholders in England and Wales. These measures include increasing transparency of service charges and building insurance policies, as well as tackling unjustified litigation costs. This consultation seeks views on how to implement these new requirements through secondary legislation, which will help leaseholders to better scrutinise and challenge unfair fees and charges, as well as the reasonableness of the services they pay for. | 26 September 2025 |
| Strengthening leaseholder protections over charges and services: consultation | The Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024 brought in a range of measures to improve home ownership for millions of leaseholders in England and Wales. These measures include increasing transparency of service charges and building insurance policies, as well as tackling unjustified litigation costs. This consultation seeks views on how to implement these new requirements through secondary legislation, which will help leaseholders to better scrutinise and challenge unfair fees and charges, as well as the reasonableness of the services they pay for. | 26 September 2025 |
Other Consultations | ||