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 3:17PM
SEND Youth Survey 2024	Informal Submission-open This is a survey for anyone up to 25 with a special educational need and/or disability (SEND). The SEND Youth Survey aims to gather the voices of children and young people with SEND across Bracknell Forest.	31 October 2024 11:55PM
Care Leavers views 2024	We would like to hear about your experiences of the help and support you receive from the Council. What you tell us will help us to understand what else we need to do to support you.	31 October 2024
Disability - Tell Us survey	The Disability Access Advisory Panel would like to hear from adults across the borough who have a disability or long-term health conditions. We would like to know about your experiences of living in Bracknell Forest and how accessible you find the borough and local support services. The views of residents provide insights that can help shape better support services in communities and inform the future work of the Disability Access Advisory Panel.	5 November 2024 11:50PM
Early Years Entitlements Consultation 2024	The purpose of this consultation is to gather views from early years providers on proposed changes to the arrangements for the early years free entitlements from April 2025. Bracknell Forest Council is consulting with early years providers in Bracknell Forest offering the early years entitlements for children aged 9 months to 4 years old, including Private Voluntary and Independent (PVI) settings, childminders, maintained schools and academies.	15 November 2024
Bracknell Forest Council's adults autism survey	This survey aims to find out what it is like to live as an autistic person in Bracknell Forest. It will help us to identify what current services and existing support works well for autistic people. We also want to find out where the current gaps are and how we can improve in the future.	24 November 2024
UK Government Consultations
Consultation	Description	Closing Date
Guidance on modern slavery and human trafficking	The College of Policing is seeking views on its updated guidance on modern slavery and human trafficking.	12 November 2024
Making Work Pay: creating a modern framework for industrial relations	The consultation seeks views on: • simplifying the amount of information unions are required to provide in industrial action notices • strengthening provisions to prevent unfair practices during the trade union recognition process • removing the 10-year ballot requirement on political funds • securing a mandate for negotiation and dispute resolution • extending the expiry of the strike mandate • reducing the industrial action notice period • updating the law on repudiation and prior call • the enforcement mechanism for right of access	2 December 2024 2024
Making Work Pay: the application of zero hours contracts measures to agency workers	The government is introducing measures to tackle one-sided flexibility in zero hours contracts through a right to guaranteed hours with a contract that reflects the number of hours regularly worked, and a right to reasonable notice of shifts with payment for shifts cancelled or curtailed at short notice. This consultation seeks views specifically on the application of these two measures to agency workers so responses from stakeholders can help to inform the government’s approach to legislation on this point.	2 December 2024 2024
Making Work Pay: collective redundancy and fire and rehire	The government is seeking views on measures to strengthen the collective redundancy framework and protections for employees against fire and rehire practices. For the collective redundancy framework, the government is seeking views on the proposal to increase the maximum period of the protective award that a tribunal can award.	2 December 2024 2024
Making Work Pay: Strengthening Statutory Sick Pay	This consultation forms part of government’s commitment to strengthen Statutory Sick Pay, as part of the plan to Make Work Pay, an ambitious agenda to ensure workplace rights are fit for a modern economy, empower working people and deliver economic growth.	4 December 2024 2024
Healthy Start for families with no recourse to public funds (easy read)	We want to find out what people think about whether Healthy Start should be given to families who cannot use the scheme because: • their immigration status does not allow it • they have no recourse to public funds No recourse to public funds means that someone cannot always get money from the government. We would like to hear from people who: • need permission to enter or stay in the UK but do not have it. Permission to enter or stay in the UK is when the government says that someone can live in the UK • have permission to enter or stay in the UK but they have no recourse to public funds • have permission to enter or stay in the UK with a maintenance undertaking. A maintenance undertaking is when someone else has said they can support a person who is moving to the UK with money and housing • have an interest in Healthy Start, no recourse to public funds, or immigration status because of their work • other members of the public	13 December 2024 2024
Regulation of Buy-Now, Pay-Later: consultation on draft legislation (October 2024)	Across the UK, millions have used Buy-Now, Pay-Later (BNPL) products, which can be a helpful way of managing finances from month to month. However, without regulation there are risks. The government has published a consultation setting out its plans for regulating the BNPL market. These plans aim to ensure people using BNPL products receive clear information, avoid unaffordable borrowing, and have strong rights when issues arise. The government’s approach will maintain access to a popular product while adding safeguards.	29 November 2024 2024
Invest 2035: the UK’s modern industrial strategy	We are asking for your views on our approach, including evidence, analysis, and policy ideas. We welcome input from a range of partners, including businesses, experts, unions, local and regional actors, and other interested parties.	24 November 2024 2024
Other Consultations
Environment Agency Policy paper - River Thames Scheme	How the Environment Agency and Surrey County Council plan to reduce flood risk in Surrey and South West London.	24 November 2024 2024
Ofwat - Consultation on new rules on remuneration and governance provided for in the Water (Special Measures) Bill	This consultation invites views on how Ofwat should introduce new rules on remuneration and governance, provided for in the Government’s Water (Special Measures) Bill. The document sets out our considerations and initial proposals on how Ofwat should introduce the following rules required by the new legislation: • a rule to prohibit performance related executive pay where company performance fails to meet specified standards; • a rule to require companies to test whether individuals in senior roles meet standards of ‘fitness and propriety’; and • a rule to ensure companies have arrangements for involving consumers in company decision-making.	19 November 2024 2024 5:59PM