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Dem Bloc Audit of YP Governance

Call for evidence:  What the audit is about and how you can contribute

DemBloc is currently conducting a governance audit of Your Party. We are reviewing how the Party’s agreed governance arrangements have operated in practice, using the Constitution, Standing Orders, First Year Organisational Strategy and relevant later governance instruments as the main framework.

The audit examines whether agreed rules and institutions were implemented, whether democratic rights could be exercised effectively, and whether experience has revealed ambiguities, omissions or structural weaknesses.

It is not intended to adjudicate political disagreements between factions, tendencies or individuals, or to decide which political strategy is preferable. Political context may be relevant where it helps explain a governance issue, but the audit itself focuses on authority, decision-making, accountability, transparency, participation, communication, decentralisation, institutional capacity and implementation.

Evidence may include official records, minutes, emails, notices, decision logs and other documentary material, as well as first-hand contemporaneous testimony that is sufficiently specific and capable of corroboration.

The audit does not assume that every allegation is true or that every governance problem amounts to a constitutional breach. Submissions will be assessed for relevance, provenance, corroboration and evidentiary weight.

We are therefore inviting members to submit any evidence they may hold that is relevant to alleged governance infringements, implementation failures or structural weaknesses.

We aim to produce as clear, evidence-based and defensible an account as possible of how the Party’s governance settlement has functioned, where it has worked, where it has not, and what evidence is still needed.


Our ongoing investigation and audit will make every effort to protect and respect the anonymity of anyone who submits evidence. Regardless of the method of submission, the audit team will take all necessary steps to ensure that identities remain completely confidential and secure throughout every stage of this process.

How to submit evidence

NOTE: There are four ways to submit evidence.

Please submit using the most suitable method below.

1

FOR SENSITIVE DATA
By encrypted email

The safest way to send sensitive data is by end-to-end encrypted email.


If sent from an encrypted email provider, such as a free proton email account, attached files are sent end-to-end encrypted, meaning it can't be read if intercepted.  The audit team will keep the files in an encrypted folder.  We will not publish or leak sensitive data.


Details of how to create an encrypted Proton email account and send the email can be found by clicking here.


The encrypted email address can be found at the bottom of the page


2

Anonymous form

Use this form to submit documentary material relevant to an alleged governance infringement, implementation failure or structural weakness.


Please do not upload safeguarding or disciplinary case material, passwords, raw membership data, or personal/sensitive information via this form. Please submit sensitive files end-to-end encrypted to the audit email address which can be found at the bottom of the page.


SUBMIT FORM ANONYMOUSLY


3

Regular Form

This version of the evidence submission form allows you to submit contact details to the audit team.  Use this form to submit documentary material relevant to an alleged governance infringement, implementation failure or structural weakness. 


Please do not upload safeguarding or disciplinary case material, passwords, raw membership data, or personal/sensitive information via this form. Please submit sensitive files via the encrypted audit email address provided by the audit team.


SUBMIT FORM


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By regular email

You can also send information to the audit email address using a standard email provider. 


Please do not send safeguarding or disciplinary case material, passwords, raw membership data, or personal/sensitive information using this method as it is not end-to-end encrypted; therefore it is impossible to guarantee the data can't be read in the unlikely event that it is intercepted.


The email address is shown at the bottom of the page

Audit email

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