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<p>The Innovation in Democracy Programme was a £550,000, one-year joint Department
for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport and Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local
Government (now Department for Levelling Up, Housing, and Communities) programme that
trialled innovative models of deliberative democracy to involve citizens in local
decision making. We supported three local authorities (LAs) to pilot citizens’ assemblies,
which enabled the LAs to convene a randomly selected but representative sample of
residents to deliberate, reach consensus, and make recommendations about a difficult
policy issue that the LA had to make. This led to people having an impact on local
policy development and delivery.</p><p>The programme ended in March 2020 and work
in this field is no longer continuing. We published a<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/innovation-in-democracy-programme-launch"
target="_blank"> publicly-available toolkit</a> for local authorities and other policymakers
about how to hold their own citizens' assemblies. Case studies for all three citizens’
assemblies are available on <a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/896505/IiDP_case_studies.pdf"
target="_blank">GOV.UK</a>.</p>
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