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Assessment 3: 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 an 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:
• 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?

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: 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	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
		understanding
Demonstrate an	20	Student does not	Limited understanding	Mixed understanding	Very good	Excellent understanding
understanding of policy		demonstrate	of policy practice for	practice for community	understanding and	and application of policy
practice for community		understanding of policy	community service	service work including	application of policy	practice for community
service work including		practice for community	work including	analysis and advocacy	practice for	service work including
analysis and advocacy		service work including	analysis and advocacy		community service	analysis and advocacy
		analysis and advocacy or			work including
		plagiarises too much			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	Excellent ability to synthesise literature, learning material and policy documents
					materials
Demonstrated use of	20	Does not use the	Uses less than the required	Uses the required number	Very good use of the	Excellent use of the
literature		required number and	number and occasionally	and type but the utilisation	required number and type	required number and
		type or plagiarises	uses them in the argument	is mixed	of literature and can use	type of literature and is
					the literature to support an	able to use literature to
					argument	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 correct APA
	100	Converted to 35%