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What ideas and suggestions would you like us to pass on to the new government?

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Carriemumsnet · 15/06/2010 22:23

We are meeting with government in the next few weeks and we'd like to pick your brains. Obviously times are tight and most government departments will be anxious to find ways to increase efficiency. Do you have any thoughts about how things could be made simpler and easier, perhaps by using Mumsnet to implement services or offer support currently offered in other ways? Are there particular services that you think warrant special protection and should be ring-fenced? Or any particular ones that you feel are badly implemented/ wasteful? How could Mumsnet work with government to make life easier for parents? For example should Mumsnet be promoted by Midwives and Health Visitors to parents when they leave hospital or have their final visit? Could Mumsnet be used as a job-share hub? We know you'll have lots of ideas and suggestions, so please post them here and we'll try and pass on as many of them as we can.

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JustineMumsnet · 17/06/2010 13:33

Hello all,
Thanks for your input so far. To be clear this isn't really about policy - it's more about delivery and mechanics. How could the way you interact with government on a local and national level be made simpler/ easier - perhaps by utilising Mumsnet, perhaps in other ways?

Are there things that make you tear your hair out because they seem so bureaucratic/ outmoded? I remember trying to claim maternity allowance (was self-employed) and after many fruitless hours just giving up in tears because it was so complicated. (Was some time ago so it might have improved). Registering the birth of my children always seemed like an unnecessary palava - could it not be done online? In short do you have any bright ideas about how parents' lives could be made easier in the way we interact with government services?

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JustineMumsnet · 17/06/2010 15:14

We don't want to become a government agency amothersplaceisinthewrong - we want to make parents' lives easier (it's our raison d'etre). The government has said they'd like to do that too and we'd thought we'd take that at face value and offer some feedback, you never know we might change something for the better .

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JustineMumsnet · 18/06/2010 10:45

gaelicsheep for me registering the birth was a palava because I had twins (who were v prem). I had to take them out of special care, go go to a central London location with no parking and lug two babies up 3 flights of stairs, wait around for a bit. I would have loved to have done it at the hospital or on line or even at my GP.

Chil1234 we are not planning on giving up our independent, non-political stance. But there's little point imho in Government spending large amounts of (our) cash on new websites to deliver government services/ admin etc when those websites already exist.

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