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Influencing UK Government Policy: Get Your Voice Heard
Key Training Features:
By the end of the session delegates will:
- Understand the structure of government, including parliament, and the Civil Service.
- Understand how business gets done in government and how policy is developed across Whitehall
- Understand the incentives and pressures faced by ministers and civil servants
- Appreciate the formal and informal aspects of working with government.
Pre- requisites:
An interest in influencing government, on behalf of your organisation or yourself. A commitment to getting things done, and an open mind.
Who can Attend:
Anyone who wants to understand how government makes decisions, and to get their own voice heard in the corridors of power.
Learning Outcomes:
- Participants will get a good understanding of how Whitehall and the Civil Service operates from a formal and informal point of view, and understand the key points at which to make interventions for maximum effect.
- Participants will learn who to target, when, and how.
- Participants will have a good understanding of the different rules and responsibilities for civil servants, ministers and special advisors.
- Participants will earn basic influencing strategies to maximise their impact.
Summary
Duration
10:00 - 16:00
Price
Available to be delivered In-House. Contact us for a quotation.
Location
Face to Face or Virtual
Lead Trainer
Thomas Foster
Thomas joined the Civil Service in 2009, and participated in the emergency Spending Review and went on to play a role in designing the incoming government’s flagship Universal Credit policy.
Read BioThomas Foster
Thomas Foster joined the Civil Service in autumn 2009, in time for an inside view of the first peace-time Coalition Negotiations for almost a century. He participated in the subsequent emergency Spending Review and went on to play a role in designing the incoming government’s flagship Universal Credit policy.
Later he went on to areas as diverse as financial regulation and designing new financial instruments for private sector investors, and at the other extreme frontline management in a London Jobcentre.
In 2015 he joined the Department for Transport where he built and ran a Briefing and Public Affairs team for the rail franchising programme that oversaw one of the most active and controversial periods in the twenty year history of privatised rail.
Last year he moved to a policy and regulatory role in Local Transport where he is currently overseeing one of the biggest open data projects in UK government history and a wide-spread review of the future of regulation in the taxi and private hire sector.
Prior to joining the civil service Thomas went to Law School in York, studied Politics and Contemporary History at university and worked in a variety of private-sector fields, including high executive search and recruitment for UK based financial services companies.
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