Public Affairs & Communications
Helping charities and the voluntary sector to tell their unique story and to influence change through public affairs and communications support which specialises in children and young people’s policy, rights and issues.
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This includes,
​​The development of public affairs and communications strategies, helping you to navigate complex legislative environments, clearly reach the right audiences with the right messages, and influence the policy and systems change that your children and families need. Supporting also the implementation of the strategies.
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Support with stakeholder engagement to identify productive conversations with decision makers at all levels and to maximise on collaborative action and policy influence. Importantly, encouraging organic conversations with schools and other children and young people's settings.
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Monitoring the policy environment to identify opportunities and risks for your work, including policy analysis briefings, timely updates, strategic recommendations and submissions for consultations and inquiries.
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​Bespoke educational materials to maximise on your reach and a shared understanding of your work across diverse audiences. Storytelling, accessible reports and teaching resources are examples of the available support.
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Training to embed sustainable public affairs knowledge across staff teams and to empower your communities with the tools to lead on change.
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Copywriting support, including campaign communications, letters to decision makers, consultation submissions, press releases, articles and blogs, speeches, case stories, newsletters, webpages and impact reports.
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Safeguarding Voices
We help the voices of whistleblowers and survivors to be better heard in their raising of mishandled child safeguarding concerns.
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Since 2017, Alison has boldly supported whistleblowers and survivors. This includes a Scottish Parliament petition (PE1979) and campaign with her 3 fellow petitioners to strengthen the scrutiny of child safeguarding concerns and as relates to the alleged mishandling by public bodies.
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Alison remains particularly committed to making Scotland safer for children through the amplification of these voices. In addition to her petition work, she offers some pro bono communications support to individual whistleblowers (in their broadest sense) and survivors who are in need of this help.