Action Plan for Change

Assignment 2: Action Plan for Change 

This assessment asks you to put forward a detailed action plan for change regarding a specific policy challenge that you have identified. The idea of this assignment is not only to put forward ideas for actual policy change, but also about the pathway to that change. This plan should demonstrate your knowledge of ideas about policy cycles, ‘problem making’, agenda setting, the use of language and rhetoric, and how various sectors of the community become involved in policy change. This is also a good opportunity to present information about the particular context in which this policy change is sought, including whether the change is within Australia or in another country, what particular contextual needs should be considered and whether policy change is more relevant to local authorities or more national bodies. We will spend time during the semester considering how best to tackle the tasks described above.