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What is the Government Communication Network?
As the name suggests, the Government Communication Network (GCN) is a network of professional communicators who work in government. There are currently around 4,000 communicators registered with the GCN website, all of whom are directly employed by different government departments and agencies.
In addition, there is a small team of people working for the Government Communication's Permanent Secretary, whose role is to provide the Network's members with learning and development opportunities, tools, best practice and guidance to help them improve the way they work.
Who can join the GCN?
The network is open to all civil servants who mainly work in communications. This includes communicators who work in government departments, agencies or non-departmental public bodies.
What do government communicators do?
Government communicators work in a variety of specialist areas including;
- Electronic communication
- Internal communication
- Marketing
- Media/Press
- Strategic communication and planning
Whatever their speciality, all government communicators are working towards the same goals, namely: informing the public about their rights and responsibilities, helping people to access government services, understand government policy and keep up to date about important issues.
Government communicators work closely with policy and delivery teams to make sure that communication is at the heart of the policy development. Only by getting the whole chain right can government offer a consistent and effective service to people.
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