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Hannah Roberts – Head of Delivery Rebecca Kenner – Parliamentary Communications Officer

Our Outreach Service aims to increase awareness and engagement with Parliament, offering training, workshops, and events. With a network of partners, we promote public involvement in legislative processes and facilitate dialogue on key issues.

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Hannah Roberts – Head of Delivery Rebecca Kenner – Parliamentary Communications Officer

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  1. Hannah Roberts – Head of DeliveryRebecca Kenner – Parliamentary Communications Officer

  2. Objective to increase awareness of the work, process and relevance of Parliament as well as encourage greater engagement with both the House of Commons and House of Lords. • Established as result of report by Modernisation Committee. • Piloted in two regions in 2008, now a national service.

  3. Two teams: • Regional Delivery • Procedural Engagement • Additional workstreams: Training the Trainer, Universities and Speakers Programme • Remote based working • To date 26,000 people have engaged with the service.

  4. Regional based service • Partnership working – identifying shared objectives • Delivery of training and workshops • All sectors including; voluntary sector, businesses, local authorities, universities, healthcare providers • Network and relationship building to create multiplier effect

  5. Example events: • Bristol Disability Equality Forum • The Home Office • Sheffield University – Journalism Studies • Voluntary Sector North West • Nottingham CVS • Tees Valley Business Ladies Networking

  6. Training the Trainer: • 11 module resource including session plans, presentations, group exercise and fact sheets. • 128 certified trainers to date • Quality assurance via user agreement and observation of session. • On average multiplier effect of 30

  7. Procedural Engagement: • Working with Select Committees to improve their public engagement; • Legislative engagement – Public Bill workshops; • “Parliament Talks...” events.

  8. Work with Select Committees: • Organise regional visits and evidence gathering sessions; • Publicise inquiries using our regional networks and contacts; • Co-ordinate web forums on third party websites; • Promote inquiries on third party websites;

  9. Legislative Engagement – Public Bill Workshops: • Are about individual Bills or how laws are made in general; • Aim to encourage the public to engage with Parliament’s scrutiny of legislation; • Held across the UK; • Following the Queen’s Speech, focus will now be on draft Bills rather than legislation already before Parliament.

  10. Parliament Talks... events programme: • Public engagement events focused on a particular theme e.g. Science; • Aim to: • inform about the subject; • Explain the work that Parliament is doing in that area; • show the relevance of Parliament; • show that Parliament as an institution is approachable and willing to engage.

  11. To find out more about the Houses of Parliament Outreach Service, visit our website: http://www.parliament.uk/get-involved/outreach and-training/

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