Assessment 3 : Advocacy Report (35%) Due Date: Week 9Word count: 1800-2000...

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Assessment 3
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Advocacy Report (35%) Due Date: Week 9
Word count: 1800-2000 words

Imagine you are working for a non-government organisation in a front-line case work position. For several months, you and your fellow workers have had discussions about extending your practice to policy advocacy. You approach a manager who agrees to provide a 6-week full time project (out of philanthropic funds). They ask you to develop a n advocacy approach for the agency that would contribute to policy change to one policy area. Your fellow workers agree to give you the task of researching and preparing a report for the agency.

Selecting a policy area that you have analysed in this subject, write a report for the imagined agency including the following.

An overview of relevant theories of policy change that could guide your work .

A brief scan of responsible government departments, non-government organisations, research organisations

and peak bodies working in that policy area and the policy changes they are working on.

An aspect of the policy that you think is worth changing and a justification for that change.

A beginning plan for policy change:

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With whom in the sector would you work, what kind of campaign, actions or strategies do you think would suit your agency and this policy change ?

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Which groups, individuals, public officials or organisations would you target for your policy advocacy plan?

The report will be between 1800-2000 words and be formatted with headings and an executive summary , and will have references to literature using APA7 style.
Literature will include all the required readings from weeks 7, 8 and 9 for your theory and, government and non- government reports and peer reviewed articles to provide evidence for your policy change.

Assessment 3
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Advocacy Report (35%) Marking Criteria

Criterion	Mark	Fail	Pass	Credit	Distinction	HD
Demonstrated comprehension of the rational and political processes involved in social policy design	20	Student does not demonstrate understanding of concepts or student plagiarises most material therefore does not demonstrate understanding	Limited understanding Students has limited understanding of the rational and political processes involved in social policy design	Mixed comprehension of the rational and political processes involved in social policy design	Very good comprehension of the rational and political processes involved in social policy design	Excellent comprehension of the rational and political processes involved in social policy design
Demonstrate an understanding of policy practice for community service work including analysis and advocacy	20	Student does not demonstrate understanding of policy practice for community service work including analysis and advocacy or plagiarises too much	Limited understanding of policy practice for community service work including analysis and advocacy	Mixed understanding practice for community service work including analysis and advocacy	Very good understanding and application of policy practice for community service work including analysis and advocacy	Excellent understanding and application of policy practice for community service work including analysis and advocacy
Depth and quality of analysis	20	Does not demonstrate analysis skills or plagiarises too much	Limited ability. Student either stays with the text or with the theory but doesn’t link between them well	Mixed analysis skills, demonstrates some ability to move between texts	Very good ability to show connections between the policy, the literature and the learning materials	Excellentability to synthesise literature, learning material and policy documents
Demonstrated use of literature	20	Does not use the required number and type or plagiarises	Uses less than the required number and occasionally uses them in the argument	Uses the required number and type but the utilisation is mixed	Very good use of the required number and type of literature and can use the literature to support an argument	Excellent use of the required number and type of literature and is able to use literature to support own voice.
Writing, structure, expression, accurate APA 7 references	20	Incorrect APA or below expected language structure and expression	Good expression and minor errors in APA	Very good expression and minor errors in APA	Very good expression and always uses correct APA	Excellent structure expression and always correctAPA
	100

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WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT 		3
WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT
Table of contents
Introduction	3
Overview of relevant theories	3
Brief scan of responsible departments	5
An aspect worth changing	7
Conclusion	9
References	10
Introduction
	Domestic abuse is the case I've picked. A great many individuals worldwide are affected by the critical issue of domestic abuse. The main far-reaching international concentration on the commonness of private partner violence and non-partner sexual violence was distributed in 2013 by the World Health Organization (WHO). As per the evaluation, 35% of women worldwide have experienced physical or potentially sexual close connection violence or non-partner sexual violence, which adds up to an infringement of their human freedoms for in excess of 33% of all women in the globe. As indicated by the survey, personal partners are liable for 38% of all homicides of women worldwide and 6% of all killings of men.
Overview of relevant theories
	Domestic violence is an example of violent behavior utilized by one companion to obtain or hold power and command over the other partner in a personal connection. Domestic violence can appear as actual or threatened physical, sexual, emotional, financial, or psychological acts against someone else (Lloyd, 2018). Any actions that intimidate, manipulate, humiliate, isolate, terrify, compel, threaten, blame, harm, injure, or wound somebody falls under this class. Three principal classifications might be utilized to group theories of policy change – 
· Process-oriented theories – These theories concentrate on the dynamics of the actual process of formulating policies. They stress how crucial it is for things like agenda-setting, decision-making, and execution to shape policy change.
· Actor-centered theories – These theories concentrate on the function of individual actors in the formulation of public policy (Kofman & Garfin, 2020)). They emphasize the significance of personal preferences, ideologies, and coping mechanisms in influencing policy change. 
· Structural theories – These theories concentrate on the fundamental institutions and structures that influence policymaking. In order to shape policy change, they emphasize the significance of power dynamics, interest group activity, and the political system. 
	The main stage is to collect and support a serious gathering of scholastics, policy investigators, and computerized experts who will team up with leaders from the policy's origination to its execution. This team will be accountable for illuminating the public about the policy, completing research, and assembling remarks from the overall population. They will likewise be responsible for maintaining the policy and reacting to analysis from the public. The making of a particular website page for the policy is the following stage. This site, which will consistently be refreshed, will act as the public's fundamental data source. The gathering of scholastics and policy specialists will watch out for the site and use it to accumulate public info. Drawing in the public via web-based entertainment and other internet-based channels is the third stage (Caroline & Louise, 2020). These stages will be utilized by the research and policy investigation team to illuminate the public about the policy and request input from them. Holding public meetings on the policy is the fourth stage. These conversations will be utilized to accumulate feelings from the public and guarantee that the policy is receptive to their necessities. The policy ought to be surveyed frequently as the fifth stage. Considering criticism from the public and new research, the research and policy investigation team will audit the policy. It's pivotal to initially appreciate the relevant theories of policy change to modify policy concerning family violence. The hypothesis of arranged change, the hypothesis of slow change, and the hypothesis of groundbreaking change are three of the most appropriate thoughts that might be utilized to direct this work. Prior to picking a game plan, it is vital to grasp the benefits and hindrances of every one of these thoughts since they each have various ramifications for the most effective way to move toward policy change. As per the thought of arranged change, the most effective way to achieve change is to painstakingly plan and do a bunch of actions that will bring about the expected outcome (Leslie & Wilson, 2020).).

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