w4mp has received complaints that people who have been removed from the hotlines list are still being contacted by MPs’ offices.
Please can you ensure that you use only the current list, linked to from this page.
Please do not save or print the hotlines list, as this risks you using incorrect details and causing annoyance to the people you are contacting.
Time: 11:00 – 12:00
Date: Friday 19 February 2021
The relationships between well-being and work have long been recognised, however the role of these in the fields of politics and government have not historically received the attention they deserve.
Research conducted by psychologists within the UK Parliament has been the focus of a recent report published by the British Psychological Society (BPS).
It highlighted potential sources of psychological pressure and developed recommendations to help the political workplace foster improved well-being for all its staff. Two members of the team Dr Ashley Weinberg, Chair of the BPS Political Psychology Section, and Andrew Baldwin, BPS Policy Advisor (Work), will present the report’s findings and its implications for political staff.
To join, please email [email protected]
The BBRS is a new, independent organisation that seeks to resolve disputes between larger SMEs and participating banks. It is free for businesses to use and offers an alternative to litigation, which for many SMEs is not a realistic option.
The service is now fully live and open to thousands of potential customers around the UK.
The BBRS is a voluntary undertaking by the seven participating banks, who have worked in partnership with SME and business representatives in its development: Barclays Bank PLC and Barclays Bank UK PLC; Danske Bank; HSBC UK Bank plc; Lloyds Banking Group (Lloyds Bank plc and Bank of Scotland plc); NatWest Group (including The Royal Bank of Scotland Plc, National Westminster Bank plc, Coutts & Company and Ulster Bank Limited (Northern Ireland)); Santander UK plc; and Virgin Money (including Clydesdale Bank PLC and Yorkshire Bank).
See their press release here: https://thebbrs.org/news/boost-for-small-businesses-as-free-and-independent-service-for-unresolved-bank-complaints-goes-live/
and their information poster here: https://thebbrs.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/BBRS-Intro-poster.pdf
The Learning and Development has arranged some new law training sessions in March. Please book yourself onto them using the intranet links below.
Introduction to housing law: Homelessness
https://parliament.learningpool.com/mod/facetoface/view.php?id=3874
Introduction to housing law: Security of tenure
https://parliament.learningpool.com/mod/facetoface/view.php?id=3876
Introduction to housing law: Social housing
https://parliament.learningpool.com/mod/facetoface/view.php?id=3877
Introduction to housing law: Disrepair
https://parliament.learningpool.com/mod/facetoface/view.php?id=3875
The Law and Special Educational Needs
https://parliament.learningpool.com/mod/facetoface/view.php?id=3878
Introduction to Anti-Social Behaviour and the Law
https://parliament.learningpool.com/mod/facetoface/view.php?id=3879
Universal Credit Overview
https://parliament.learningpool.com/mod/facetoface/view.php?id=3036
Office Manager- Getting started
https://parliament.learningpool.com/mod/facetoface/view.php?id=3492
Please note that the waiting list function is not available at the moment, therefore, please go to the Act pages regularly to check the availabilities. Please also note that these courses may be arranged in the future but we do not have the dates yet.
Looking for where a Committee Meeting is being held today?
The ‘Whats on in Parliament’ calendar can now be found on the public parliamentary website.
It provides information about Business in the Main Chamber as well as in Westminster Hall and the location of both General Committee and Select Committee meetings.
It’s here: https://whatson.parliament.uk/
Today, 15 February 2021, marks the 201st birthday of Susan B. Anthony.
Susan B Anthony was a lot of things. She was a teacher, a headmistress, a woman’s rights activist but most of all she was a person who devoted her life to creating change. A woman who wasn’t afraid to stand up for what she believed in, regardless of the consequence. A woman who spoke her mind, even when everyone around her disagreed.
Despite her hard life as a small-town teacher, and despite the fact that she was paid 75% less than male teachers, she persevered and went on the become one of the most influential women of the 1800’s. She was the first woman who voted in the US, and ultimately spent her life petitioning for the rights of slaves and women across America.
Even though she didn’t live to see it, Anthony was instrumental in the groundwork of the suffrage movement and its success. The 19th Amendment, which boasts her name as the Susan B. Anthony Amendment, adopted in 1920, gave every adult American woman the right to cast her vote.
You can read a very interesting article on Susan B. Anthony here: https://ammo.com/articles/susan-b-anthony-forgotten-history-woman-inspired-19th-amendment-womens-rights and w4mp thanks Ammo.com for getting in touch to bring it to our attention.
Susan B. Anthony’s 1872 speech ‘On Women’s Right to Vote’ has previously been cited by w4mp as a great speech in our guide to Writing a Speech and you can read it in full here: https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/content/anthony-vote-speech.html
The Registrar of Members’ Financial Interests runs workshops for Members and their staff on the following subjects together with the next available dates. The workshops will be run remotely via MS Teams.
A. Openness and Registering Members’ Financial Interests, covering:
Dates:
B. How to Support an All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG), covering
Dates:
Booking required. Please contact [email protected] to book a place.
Our list of Hotline Numbers is one of the most-used W4MP services.
Do you (or your organisation) have any MP hotline numbers that aren’t on our list?
We often get people emailing us to ask if we have hotline numbers for various organisations or Government departments, and the simple answer is “if it’s not on the list, then sorry, but we don’t have it”.
However, it’d be really great if you’d let us know any that we don’t already have, so that we can let other MPs and their staff know about them.
Did you know that there are several groups which MPs’ staff can join? There’s sports and social groups, workplace equality networks, religious groups, and groups which provide support and representation.
You can find a list of them here: https://w4mp.org/w4mp/w4mp-guides/groups-which-staff-can-join/
If you know of any other groups which are open to staff, but we have not listed, please do let us know by emailing [email protected] and we would be happy to add them to our site.
Who should attend this course?
Think you know about searching online? Do you type a word or two into Google and find what you think you’re looking for?
This course focuses on effective research techniques and strategies to retrieve meaningful results when searching the internet as well as an introduction to other search tools.
This training course is open to any Intranet user who wants to improve their web searching and learn techniques for constructing successful searches.
Course overview and content
The Find It Online course focuses on effective research techniques and strategies to retrieve meaningful results when searching the internet as well as an introduction to other search tools i.e. Bing, DuckDuckGo, Yahoo
This course is part of the Library’s Find It training programme.
Learning objectives
This course will equip you with skills to control and minimise your search results and help you understand:
connectors to combine search terms
alternative search query types to narrow results to specific type of materials(s) or website(s)
advanced skills to construct effective search strategies
how to evaluate search results
Approach
The course will be a mix of:
presentation and online demonstrations
examples to work through to help you grasp different search techniques
You will also have the opportunity to ask questions and explore aspects of searching online that are particularly interesting for you.
To view course dates and book, please visit
https://parliament.learningpool.com/enrol/index.php?id=87