Strategic Plan 2009 - 2012
Plenet will take a lead in creating a coherent identity for public legal education and in collaboration with others identify and promote excellence in the research, design and delivery of PLE and ensure that PLE is widely accepted, used and championed.
Plenet Mission Statement April 2009
With Plenet being a relatively new network, there are some exciting challenges ahead. These aspirations have been set out in a new strategic plan covering the next three years.
A key challenge is to spread the news about the benefits of public legal education, and not just to legal advisors and the government. Plenet wants to spread the news to other professionals - to educators, to local government agencies, to community and youth workers.
Plenet will be exploring and bringing together activities and projects that can be described as forms of public legal education. In this way, they hope to create a fresh and much broader identity of PLE work.
Plenet are already uncovering creative PLE work in different spheres of life and have found a wide range of projects that help people to cope more confidently with the problems and complexities of everyday life. Plenet is uniquely placed to promote and develop these initiatives.
By building up a library of PLE activities, Plenet will be able to identify examples of best practice and share these with other workers in the field - the aim being to develop expertise and the effectiveness of PLE strategies. One of the new and interesting aspects of Plenet's work is analysing how people learn - what practical and emotional skills are needed and how PLE can develop people's capacity to deal with problems.
Plenet are also looking at theoretical models and is already commissioning researchers to look at ways of evaluating the value of PLE, both to society as a whole and to the participants of PLE programmes.
As well as building up its reputation as the source of models of good practice, Plenet is committed to building up an active network of PLE practitioners. Practitioners in the past have often been isolated and provision fragmented. Plenet's strategy therefore is to support and expand the network and encourage collaboration and partnerships.
The development of public legal education is an exciting opportunity and Plenet are committed to making sure that the work continues. New professionals need to be encouraged to enter the field and those already practising need to be encouraged into staying if talent and experience is not to be lost. To this end, Plenet are championing the establishment of an independent PLE Centre.
Plenet's vision is that by the end of March 2012:
Not only will Public Legal Education be accepted and actively used as a means of empowering individuals and communities but as a result of its use there will have been a substantial growth in the number of legally capable citizens actively participating in society.
In summary, Plenet's aims for the next three years are to:
- Promote and embed a coherent identity for PLE as a cornerstone of access to justice.
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Become a leader in building and developing the capacity of PLE through expanding
the body of knowledge and expertise of what makes for effective PLE.
- Support and expand an active network of PLE practitioners, and promote a sustainable and joined up approach to PLE delivery.
The aims set out in Plenet's strategic plan are based on the recommendations of the Public Legal Education and Support Task Force who reported in 2007 and Plenet's Steering Group made up of representatives committed to the future development of PLE.
Plenet Strategic Plan
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