Your Office

Your Job

• Application Tips
  • Parliamentary CV Scheme feedback: Application advice from staff
  • Creating a Winning CV & Cover Letter
  • Giving a Successful Interview
  • Fast Stream Appointments
  • Foreign nationals working for MPs
  • Infiltrating Westminster – how to get a foot in the door

Casework

• Planning and Management
  • Case management software information
  • Protocol clarified on representing constituents
  • Planning for Constituency Cases – Library Standard Note
• Issue by Issue
  • Guide to the Child Support Agency
  • List of waiting times for UK visa applications
  • Immigration Casework
  • Dealing with Service Providers and Consumer Protection (for Caseworkers and Researchers)
  • Asylum casework
  • Welfare Reforms 2011 onwards – road map to changes
  • Legal Ombudsman
• Tools and Resources
  • Toolkits for MPs’ staff by external organisations
  • Constituency Casework Toolkit – from the Commons Library
• Helping your constituents – A guide for MPs and their staff from the Citizens Advice Bureau

Your Office

• Organising things: Diary, meetings and events
  • Organising a Meeting in Parliament
  • Bulk emails – the DOs and DON’Ts
  • How to stop junk faxes, junk mail and unwanted sales calls
  • Email etiquette
  • Booking committee and meeting rooms
  • Today’s Meetings – where to find them all
  • How to get photos of your MP in the chamber
  • Parliamentary Outreach – free service for the public
  • Diary Management – Never miss another appointment
• Hiring work experience students and interns
  • Researcher’s Guide to Managing an Intern
• Paying for security costs in your constituency
• Organising events in the constituency
• Laptop security
• Hiring Staff
• Twelve Months in a Constituency Office
• Freedom of Information and Data Protection issues

Research

• Welcome
  • Access to refreshment facilities in the Palace of Westminster
  • Finding your way: Maps of the Parliamentary Estate
• Your Employment
  • Redundancy
  • Staff Rights and Representation
  • Maternity Leave and Pay for MPs’ Staff
  • Staff salary scales
  • On-site nursery at Westminster
  • Promotion of a Political Party: Guidance from IPSA and the Information Commissioner
  • Help at Work for All Staff
  • Employment Rights
  • Commons Personnel Advice Service
  • Do you need to register as self-employed?
  • Working from Home: A guide for those who work for an MP
  • Dissolution 2015
• Your MP: Basic Info
  • The Members’ Handbook
  • Members and Constituency Etiquette – vital guide
  • MPs and Freedom of Information
  • Glossary of Parliamentary Terms
  • Freedom of Information requests
  • Defamation – how it applies to MPs
  • Handling Lobbyists
  • theyworkforyou.com website
  • Speechwriting for Party Conferences
• Political links and know-how
  • Useful Internet Tools for Staff
  • Politics-related websites – Keele University links
  • Political opinion polling

Parliament

• Who’s Who
  • Guide to All Party Parliamentary Groups
  • PICT (Parl’y Info Communication & Technology) – what they offer
  • List of Ministerial Responsibilities
  • ‘Servants of the House’ – what the Clerks do
  • List of current MPs elected to Parliament following the 2010 General Election
  • Parl’y Office of Science & Technology – POST notes
  • Whips and Their Work
• The Library
  • Library Talks
  • 10 things the Library can do for you
  • Guides to Commons Library Services
  • The Library Loans Service
  • Online resources from the Commons Library
  • Library Contact Scheme
  • Commons Library Directory of Subject Specialists – latest version
  • Debate Packs from the Commons Library
  • Library Briefing Papers (Research Papers and Standard Notes)
• How it works
  • Legislation: Statutory Instruments made simple
  • Legislation: Working on Public Bills
  • Campaigning: Parliamentary Questions (PQs)
  • Campaigning: Early Day Motions
  • Campaigning: Petitioning 10 Downing Street
  • Schedules: The Dissolution and Prorogation of Parliament
  • What is ‘Prorogation’?
• Researcher Extraordinaire
  • Writing a speech
  • How to compile a briefing for a roundtable or panel discussion
  • Handling the Media
  • Working with lobbyists
• Online Parliamentary Archives catalogue

Others