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20th April 2012

Rebecca Cheung, Policy and Research Officer for POPS (Partners of Prisoners and Families Support Group) talks about how her day observing the different stages of policy development at the Department for Food, Environment and Rural affairs and a newfound respect for senior ministers.

20th April 2012

Sheila McGill discusses how 'A Day in the Life' helped her assess and re-evaluate the objectives and outcomes she plans on a day to day basis and how it assisted in the development of Stop Before You Start, a social enterprise striving to reduce the uptake of smoking in young people.

19th April 2012

Ismail Kaji talks about being the first person with a learning disability to take part in 'A Day in the Life' and how it provided him and Mencap with an opportunity to be involved in the passage of the Welfare Reform Bill.

19th April 2012

This is a guest post by Charlotte Stuffins from the NCVO Policy and research team.

Charlotte StuffinsIn September, I took part in NCVO's 'A Day in the Life' work shadowing scheme, which gave me the chance to spend a day shadowing a civil servant to learn how the ‘other side’ operates.

18th April 2012

paul_winyard1_0.jpgPaul Winyard, who manages NCVO's 'A Day in the Life' work shadow scheme explains how the scheme does much more than foster relations between civil society and government. In a harsh economic climate it also helps fill the learning and development vacuum left by cuts to training budgets, helping organsations do more with less. 

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