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 |  Subject: UK: Place shaping? Holistic governance? Council bans jargon  Wed Mar 18, 2009 9:45 pm | |
| Our ambassador says with our blue sky thinking and can do culture, we will be able to value-add towards a single point of contact that should define the coterminosity parameters for the predictors of beaconicity.
If you did not understand the sentence above, fret not. Britain's Local Government Association has banned this kind of jargon to improve communication between councils and the people they serve.
The LGA said removing such words from use was important as people turned to local government bodies for help during the recession.
"Unless information is given to people to explain what help they can get during a recession then it could well lead to more people ending up homeless or bankrupt," councillor Eaton said.
"If a council fails to explain what it does in plain English then local people will fail to understand its relevance to them or why they should bother to turn out and vote."
Neil James of the Plain English Foundation said he hoped Australia's own Local Government Association would follow in their footsteps.
"What it highlights is an unnecessary dressing up of the everyday environment, which is as much a problem in Australia as it is in Britain," Dr James, who is the foundation's executive director, said.
"Ironically we find that although councils are the form of government that is closest to the people, they often use some of the most inflated language and jargon, and that it is a barrier in providing the services that they are meant to provide to the public."
Dr James cited Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's "bureaucrat-speak", which he calls "speaking in Ruddles", as being a problem for Australia's public service sector.
"[I]f people can't easily understand what he is doing on their behalf, that's a problem. The responsibility of a prime minister to communicate clearly what he is doing and why he's doing it.
"Secondly ... the public service has a natural tendency to want to drop into this language.
"And when the public service hears its master's voice using this kind of jargon and bureaucratic-speak, then they are more likely to drop into that. And that is going to have an impact on every government service."
Dr James gave one example of Mr Rudd's speaking style: "We export uranium to the rest of the world. The conditionality attached is that the receiving State is NPT compliant. And secondly, that we have a separate and additional bilateral nuclear safeguard agreement with that state."
He said the Prime Minister could have said: "We export uranium, but only to states that comply with the non-proliferation treaty and sign a bilateral nuclear safeguard agreement."
See the list of banned words, which include "double devolution", "holistic governance", "inspectorates", "place shaping" and "provider vehicles".
Words included on the list include:
* taxonomy
* re-baselining
* mainstreaming
* holistic governance
* contestability
* predictors of beaconicity
* synergies
LNK
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RR Phantom
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Job/hobbies : Cayman Islands Actuary
| | Subject: Re: UK: Place shaping? Holistic governance? Council bans jargon Wed Mar 18, 2009 9:46 pm | |
| 200 WORDS AND THEIR ALTERNATIVES
Across-the-piece – everyone working together
Actioned – do
Advocate - support
Agencies - groups
Ambassador - leader
Area based – in an area
Area focused – concentrating on the area
Autonomous - independent
Baseline – starting point
Beacon – leading light
Benchmarking - measuring
Best Practice – best way
Blue sky thinking – thinking up ideas
Bottom-Up – listening to people
CAAs - why use at all?
Can do culture - get the job done
Capabilities -
Capacity - ability
Capacity building - enough room in the system
Cascading - why use at all?
Cautiously welcome – devil in the detail
Challenge - problem
Champion – best
Citizen empowerment – people power
Client - person
Cohesive communities – why use at all?
Cohesiveness - together
Collaboration – working together
Commissioning - buy
Community engagement – getting people involved
Compact - why use at all?
Conditionality - why use at all?
Consensual - everyone agrees
Contestability - Why use at all?
Contextual - background
Core developments – main things that are happening
Core Message – main point
Core principles - beliefs
Core Value – belief
Coterminosity – all singing from the same hymn sheet
Coterminous – all singing from the same hymn sheet
Cross-cutting – everyone working together
Cross-fertilisation – spreading ideas
Customer – people/person
Democratic legitimacy – voted in
Democratic mandate – elected to put people first
Dialogue – talk/discuss
Direction of travel – way forward
Distorts spending priorities – ignores people’s needs
Double devolution - Why use at all?
Downstream - Why use at all?
Early Win – success
Edge-fit - Why use at all?
Embedded – set in
Empowerment – people power
Enabler - helps
Engagement – working with people
Engaging users – getting people involved
Enhance – improve
Evidence Base – research shows
Exemplar – example
External challenge – outside pressures
Facilitate – help
Fast-Track – speed up
Flex - Why use at all?
Flexibilities and Freedoms - more power to do the right thing
Framework – guide
Fulcrum – pivot
Functionality - use
Funding Streams - money
Gateway review - Why use at all?
Going forward – in the future
Good Practice – best way
Governance - Why use at all?
Guidelines – guide
Holistic – taken in the round
Holistic governance - Why use at all?
Horizon scanning - Why use at all?
Improvement levers – using the tools to get the job done
Incentivising – incentive
Income Streams – money/cash
Indicators - measurements
Initiative – idea
Innovative capacity - Why use at all?
Inspectorates – monitoring bodies
Interdepartmental – working together
Interface – talking to each other
Iteration - version
Joined up – working together
Joint working – working together
LAAs - Why use at all?
Level playing field – everyone equal
Lever - Why use at all?
Leverage - influence
Localities – places/town/city/village
Lowlights – worst bits
MAAs - Why use at all?
Mainstreaming - Why use at all?
Management capacity - Why use at all?
Meaningful consultation– talking to people
Meaningful dialogue – talking to people
Mechanisms - methods
Menu of Options – choices
Multi-agency – many groups
Multidisciplinary – many
Municipalities – towns/cities/areas
Network model - Why use at all?
Normalising – make normal
Outcomes – results
Outcomes - focused
Output - results
Outsourced - privatised
Overarching - Why use at all?
Paradigm - Why use at all?
Parameter - limits
Participatory – joining in
Partnership working – working together
Partnerships – working together
Pathfinder – Why use at all?
Peer challenge - Why use at all?
Performance Network - Why use at all?
Place shaping – creating places where people can thrive
Pooled budgets - money
Pooled resources – time and money
Pooled risk - Why use at all?
Populace - people
Potentialities - chances
Practitioners - experts
Predictors of Beaconicity – Why use at all?
Preventative services – protecting the most vulnerable
Prioritization – most important
Priority – most important
Proactive - Why use at all?
Process driven – shouldn’t everything be people driven?
Procure - buy
Procurement - buying
Promulgate - spread
Proportionality - in proportion
Protocol - guidance
Provider vehicles - Why use at all?
Quantum - Why use at all?
Quick Hit – success
Quick Win – success
Rationalisation - cut
Rebaselining - Why use at all?
Reconfigured - reform
Resource allocation – money going to the right place
Revenue Streams - money
Risk based – safest way
Robust - tough
Scaled-back – cut/reduce
Scoping – work out
Sector wise - Why use at all?
Seedbed – idea
Self-aggrandizement - Why use at all?
Service users – people
Shared priority – all working together
Shell developments - Why use at all?
Signpost – point in the direction of
Single conversations – talking to
Single Point of Contact – everything under one roof
Situational - situation
Slippage – delay
Social contracts - deal
Social exclusion – poverty
Spatial - Why use at all?
Stakeholder – other organisations
Step Change – improve
Strategic - planned
Strategic priorities - planned
Streamlined – efficient
Sub-regional – work between councils
Subsidiarity – Why use at all?
Sustainable – long term
Sustainable communities – environmentally friendly
Symposium – meeting
Synergies – what use at all?
Systematics - Why use at all?
Taxonomy - Why use at all?
Tested for Soundness – what works
Thematic - theme
Thinking outside of the box - Why use at all?
Third sector – charities and voluntary organisations
Toolkit - guidance
Top-Down – ignores people
Trajectory - route
Tranche - slice
Transactional - Why use at all?
Transformational – change
Transparency - clear
Upstream - Why use at all?
Upward trend – getting better
Utilise - use
Value-added – extra
Vision – ideal/dream/belief
Visionary – ideal/dream/belief
Welcome – necessary and needed/step in the right direction
Wellbeing - healthy
Worklessness - unemployed |
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