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Parliament essentials/1: Free guides on how parliament works
Getting to grips with how parliament works can be a bit bewildering even to the most hardened UK public affairs professional. But there’s free help at hand with the House of Commons Information Office guides. These cover: • what parliament does • how it makes laws • how it debates its business and much more.…
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Social Policy Insight/3: Making a good first impression
Communicating policy ideas simply to people is part of a public affair professional’s everyday business. Let’s imagine – for instance – that you’ve got a meeting with your local MP next week; and you want to “sell” them one of your ideas. What kinds of questions would you be asking yourself to help you prepare?…
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Social Policy Insight/2: Stress-free policy development
Given their political and parliamentary know-how, public affairs professionals are often called on to help organisations select policy priorities. Here’s three tips to help you take the stress out of prioritising policy. • Choose your top policy priority first, then move onto two and three. Once you have one agreed, the others tend to follow…
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Social policy insight/1: shaping policy with confidence
Being able to shape policy is one of the key tools of a public affairs expert. Put simply policy means what you think or believe around a particular issue, where you stand or position yourself. Do you believe that all older people should pay for their social care? Should volunteers be paid? Here’s 3 tips…
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The modern slavery story: the spirit of brotherhood?
Media stories – like Leighton Buzzard and “modern slavery” – can sometimes throw up hidden, cruel facts about our society; and start people talking. Talk is good. It’s a start. Media stories can also throw up startling statistics. Evidence is good. Here’s two statistics that help build a case for a committed, co-ordinated multi-agency approach to stop modern slavery in the…
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But is it art? Reaching out to real people
Excellent article by Ekow Eshun on the Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei on how to use simple participatory art movement campaign tactics to reach out and connect with “real” people affected by “real” social issues. Have a provocative key message. In Ai Weiwei’s Sichuan campaign the allegation was that 1000s of children had died…
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Blog basics: how to write a blog
When you first start writing blogs it can be difficult to know where to begin. Here’s a few questions to ask yourself to get yourself started. Who’s your audience? Be as specific as possible. What issues have they got? How can you help them? What are you going to put in the blog? Tips around…
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