Stronger Voice expert seminar: Influencing officials
Stronger Voice expert seminar: Influencing officials
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Previous Stronger Voice expert seminars have focussed on campaigning and influencing in the public eye, often with a parliamentary target audience, but strong relationships with officials in the civil service can be just as valuable. What does good inside-track advocacy look like? How can you build relationships with decision makers to advance your policy aims?
In this expert seminar, we will hear from Stephen O’Connor; Deputy Director of Probation Policy at the Ministry of Justice, and Anna Lacey; Deputy Director Female Offenders and Health Policy at the Ministry of Justice to discuss their respective roles and explore the ways in which voluntary organisations can build and make the most of relationships with government officials. The seminar will be chaired by Anne Fox; Clinks’ Chief Executive Officer.
Attendees will come away with:
- Advice on how to build strong relationships with officials
- Insight into approaches that can be taken to execute effective insider influencing and develop a critical friend approach
- How insider influencing can achieve transformational changes in how services are run.
About Stronger voice
The Stronger voice programme is funded by the Lloyds Bank Foundation for England and Wales, and aims to help the voluntary sector working in criminal justice to develop a unified and influential voice, at both a national and regional level. Through this programme, Clinks are bringing together experts across policy, campaigns and communications for a range of free events, training and coaching opportunities to support organisations of all sizes to feel more confident in influencing policy and campaigning for change.
Costs
This is a free event.
You will not be asked for payment details, but please ensure you complete all stages of the booking process, including 'Payment' (which is set to £0.00), to confirm your place.
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Privacy and security
This event will be conducted through Zoom, an online meeting platform. As security and privacy is important to us, we’re adapting our procedures in line with the latest security guidance from Zoom. We have:
- Implemented the latest security functions as standard, including requiring registration, passwords and waiting rooms.
- Made sure all delegates login and book through the Clinks website, so everyone identifies themselves.
- Ask delegates to follow housekeeping rules. Any unwanted behaviour will result in delegates being removed from meetings.
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Code of Conduct
Clinks is a values driven organisation and we expect our members to agree and uphold those values at all Clinks events. Our membership code of conduct outlines our expectations regarding the behaviour of our members and their staff towards Clinks and other member organisations. If any behaviour or disruption during an event is considered to be a breach of the Clinks code of conduct, these concerns will be addressed by the sector support, members and networks manager and this may result in removal from future Clinks events or membership overall.