The Influence of Pressure Groups on the Public Sector

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Recommended: the extent to which pressure groups have an impact on UK government policy.

Barnardos, is an organised pressure group which aims at influencing the policies or actions of the government for the benefits of achieving their vision in representing children’s welfare.

Pressure groups have been around the UK since 1960’s with approximately well over 7,000 associations of various shapes and sizes of pressure group organisations operating in the UK..

The capacity of how effective a pressure group is determined by:

• Leadership

• Organisational abilities

• Mass media

• Economic power base

• Mobilisational techniques.

Pressure groups have certain responsibilities that they have to abide by when carrying out their duties which include basing their criticism on facts, hold peaceful and legal meetings, inform local authorities which includes the police prior to protesting, and most important responsibility is not to intimidate.

This case study will focus on Barnardos, as the chosen pressure group. The case study will try to make representation to pressure groups with brief background information on Barnardo’s as well as try to examine the influences Barnardos has on the public sector.

Main Body

Dr Thomas John Barnardo, born in Dublin, established Barnardo’s in 1867, and today under the leadership of Martin Narey, Barnardo’s is known to be one of the largest charities around, that focuses on children’s welfare in the UK.

In 1866, Barnardo arrived in London to train as a Doctor, but noticed that the population of London was so vast in size that there was unemployment, overcrowding, poverty, and disease particularly in the East End area of London the poorest area of UK.

Shortly after Barnardo arrived in London, Cholera a deadly disease swept through East End, killing more than 5,500 people, forcing thous...

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...allegations relating to physical force against removal of pregnant women, which tarnished the reputation of the organisation but it eventually overcame this allegation, through time.

Works Cited

http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/wiki/revision:pressure_groups

(Charity assessment PDF, Dec 2009, Belinda Vernon)

Heywood, Andre. Essentials of UK Politics. Basingstoke. Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. Print.

Network23.org/barnardosout/day-of-action/-dayofactionagainstBarnardo’s-8Nov/Barnardo’soutofcedars

http://www.effectiveservices.org/images/uploads/Capacity_Building_Barnardos_Case_Study_-_final_04.11.13.pdf

Watts,D,(2007) Pressure Groups, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

www.earlhamsociologypages.co.uk/pressure

www.barnardo’s.org.uk/what-we-do/campaigns.htm campaignforcharity/charitycampains/barnardo’scampaigns

http://www.barnardos.org.uk

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