Government departments are bureaucracies too huge, funding hard to access and civil servants inaccessible and remotely able to find and locate real effective time to communicate, watch and see to understand third sector situations, to serve, influence and relate with communities and third sectors on the ground outside departmental four walls and outside in public spaces. For mutual support, achievement, interpretation of third sector achievements and understanding of truths, justice and the realities of lives, the ways government departments operate must change. The truths about affordable housing, mass migrations, offensive ways of life, personal and public space and all problematic situations of the communities, life cycle of works or projects, concerns, effective visions and complaints of the third sector and oppositions from political parties and public must be brought face to face with civil servants to achieve efficiency and value for money.
For example to accelerate the Prime Minister’s visions to realise potentials and aspirations of individuals, civil servants, ministers, communities and third sectors must find ways and make available time to connect and serve one another across generations at local level on the ground physically mobilise the willing communities of youths and adults for soul-seaching disciplinary training and awareness of rights and wrongs in our society. To cultivate the right communal attitudes for the prosperity of souls and mutual trust and to respect, we have to connect, meet and debate openly and regularly to answer questions and openly meeting needs of youth, listening to them to guide and help them find inner peace and engagement in spirit and in truths. The government can only achieve such ambitions to solve all problems by radical change the methods of operation of departments serving and knowing the truths and situations of street sleepers to handle homelessness, problems or not of first-time house buyer by listening to individual financial situation and attitudes and work with estate agent and mortgage broker to find wisdom, righteousness, justice and truths about debt-problems and the positives and negatives of our financial system and integrity of advisers and financial sales persons. In a nutshell, wisdom, knowledge and right choices with a little of help from third sector are powerful oils for the wheels of change and societal improvement.
Depending on life cycle of projects, with the assistance of third sector workers or counsellor and civil servants humbly to listen to learn and patient to watch without prejudices the life cycles of projects the government will find it far easier to assess validity for funding, to find all truths to do with the visions and purposes for funding.
I am convinced that seeing is believing, in particular with projects to do with counselling, improvement and invisibles like expectant changes of lifestyle, situations and attitudes. If the department can invest ample days a week 365 days for a year region by region through processes of meeting togather to counsel and influence each other wisely for long term process, righteously for best practice, justly for truths, honestly without subjective judgement, lies and deceptions, in due processes of time all involve will find better understanding of each other goodness and eagerness to serve for mutual benefit, societal trust, joy and peace.
The comfort of working in the office civil servants and ministers must abandon such idea. Bureaucracy postponed for a year to enlighten minds of civil servants by seeing and understanding realities, harshness of people’s wrong attitudes, life goodness, concerns and contingencies to do with economic, personal, communal and social concerns and anomalies region by region until all truths are discovered and problems real, spiritual, visible, invisible or in perceptions agreed or evolve to park until resolve professionally, steadfastly and patiently.
Until all the civil servants and ministers willing to get out of the office and sacrifice 365 days 7 days week for a year, all writing, listening, reporting, judging, commenting and filling forms for funding will not be productive but hindered.
The first step for the government to achieve the strategy launched on 7 June to improve engagement with the sector through strategic partnership and funding relationship with the sector is to initiate and support sustainable investment of the time and resources of the third sector to listen in order to counsel, help, guide and train the weak, needy, unhappy and poor and to each other. Together in unity in order to serve, counsel, repent, forgive and heal from grassroot level bottom up, gather together by all connected to the dilemma. All must be willing to be led by the third sector initiators to anchor and refocus on finding truths and wrongs to be corrected from errors of judgement, righteousness from lies and deceptions, justice and wisdom in argument about the conflicts of immigration or needs of migrants, homelessness, unemployment, benefits systems, public services and crimes, all issues can be handled successfully by communities contributions and individuals working with government and people encouragememt and financial support.
For communities and third sector to appreciate and respect works of civil servants and politicians, communities must at least know how the department functions behind close doors in bureaucracies. Civil servants concern about reporting, arguing and debating constantly on realities of life inside Parliament seem ludicrous waste of time. Bureaucracy to serve people but papers, words and language are short and limited to interpret and reflect truths and realities of life, are sure waste of time and resources of government.
For example it would seem far better to recruit the local residents for the job of Police and community support officers (CSO) to inspire with goals and visions to serve the communities the job-holder easily identify and know.
Human beings are not naturally good, like our soldiers in the battlefield, all civil servants and communities must be disciplined, trained and taught self-controlled and trust through processes of gathering together to listen and explore wrong and right attitudes to adopt if willing to change, cleansing of wrong attitudes and healing of unclean souls and impure spirits in order to respect and value each other hierarchically and horizontally.
Government servants, third sectors and communities cannot judge, evaluate projects, appreciate each other and solve problems hiding and working in isolation of each other, but openly, justly and honestly we can serve humbly gather together.
The government must not operate from office premises and expect the third sector to write and to know how to write and access personnel and resources. Government must initiate to completely turn the working ethos of the department up-side down by getting out and about serving and finding problems and complaints, without which civil servants sit and wait in Town halls and conference centre to find truths, to invite communities and create opportunities to bless, not waiting until times of general election to find truths and problems to overcome. Not working behind machines and computers, working outside for a year are effective, inspirational and encouraging for civil servants, our kids, youth and criminals, communities and third sectors, counsellors, officers and ministers leading to achieve goals and inspire objectives outside office environment unhindered by contraints of time, coming together to learn, experience and enjoy truths to find justice, righteousness, best practices and wisdom to deliver and impart, confusion and conflict of opinions to clarify too.
Visions of prosperity, cohesive communities and partnership with the sector cannot be achieved without on-going engagement and relationship building strategy. To find truths with the third sector, civil servants must get out, acquaint themselves with knowledge, life-cycles and insights of works of third-sector impossible to explain on paper, civil servants and ministers to give sacrificially and cheerfully their office hours in order to receive the salaries should be the ways forward for all departments for as long as necessary in order to cut bureaucracies and red-tapes would be wise, just and effective in relationship building.
Time processes projects, heal our spirits of mistrust, fears and unrighteousness, realise our visions and change things for the better without wasting and needing efforts, ideas and knowledge but relationship building is paramount to appreciate and value each other visions and goals.
Led by third sectors, some examples of achievment on gathering together are:
o innovative new ways of counselling and processes, helping people access basic needs and developing awareness of where power, resources, knowledge, solutions to wrongs and love within a person is in a given dilemma.
o Refocus, to help a client or counsellee on their issues onto an awareness of power, thoughts, solutions within and find facilities and place of safety by spending time together caring and serving one another fact-finding & enjoying each other presence in righteousness and truths
o Confession, comforting, healing and forgiveness to find truths and justice in situations
To explore truths, symptoms and solutions, civil servants, communities and third sectors must be willing to invest time to serve one another in radically different, open, honest and uncritical ways patiently to listen and co-operate. To quietly and humbly find solutions with help of third sectors leading the ways, government funding, ministers and civil servants’ time to assess and assist, personally involve in projects and find all truths, justice, righteousness and wisdom of all societal problems and dilemma.