Position Papers
These publications are a series of critiques of government consultations, ranging from homelessness policy to environmental impact statements. All too often these consultations are conducted within a narrow framework that takes certain assumptions from granted. Position Papers aim to question these preconceptions.
January 2007
Care Matters: Transforming the Lives of Children and Young People in Care
September 2006
Environmental Impact Assessments
by Future Cities Project
Reply to Tacking Overcrowding, a department for Communities and Local Governement Consultation
by Dave Clements
"Decent homes' are apparently analogous with 'decent neighbourhoods'. This represents a not so subtle shift from the onus on government to ensure that housing is fit for habitation and in sufficient supply, to an emphasis on the kinds of 'decent' behaviour that will enhance the experience of living in an area (and even in a home) of indeterminate physical quality."
August 2006
Reply to Sustainable School, a department for Education Consultation
by Austin Williams
"In the consultation, the principle of sustainability is sacrosanct, but this response takes such governmental didacticism to task and suggests that the implications of the review will have negative consequences for educational standards, and for education per se."
