Tag: Public Relations and Communications Association

PRCA challenges industry: prove you’re ethical and professional

Stuart Mitchell

The Public Relations and Communications Association (PRCA) has unveiled a new campaign challenging practitioners to prove their ethical professionalism by joining the industry’s professional body. Launched at the midpoint of the industry’s global Ethics Month, and running from 12th September to 12th October, 2018, the campaign highlights reasons to join the PRCA as an Individual Member, and challenges practitioners to ‘do the right thing’. The campaign sets out 26 reasons to join the PRCA as an individual member, equating to £3.85 per reason for an annual membership. It also offer…

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PRCA and ICCO sign collaborative statement affirming importance of a free press

Stuart Mitchell

The Public Relations and Communications Association (PRCA) and the International Communications Consultancy Organisation (ICCO) have joined a host of communications organisations in making a public statement affirming the importance of a free press. The statement has been released to express support for the critical role of a free press and the USA’s First Amendment. It attests to the essential value of a free press to inform decision-making, and decrying attacks on the media as an ‘enemy of the people’. The statement, launched by the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA),…

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APPC and PRCA publish proposed Public Affairs Code of Conduct to provide clarity on proposed merger

Stuart Mitchell

The Association of Professional Political Consultants (APPC) and the Public Relations and Communications Associations (PRCA) have today published their single proposed Public Affairs Code for the industry along with a raft of other documents aimed at providing clarity and transparency on the proposed merger. The Public Affairs Code – and its independent Complaints, Determination, and Disciplinary Rules and Procedures – will apply to all members of the merged organisation, the Public Affairs Board. Near-identical to the current APPC Code, the proposed changes are limited to the following areas: references to…

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PRCA challenges industry with #POWERofETHICS campaign throughout September

Stuart Mitchell

The Public Relations and Communications Association (PRCA) has challenged the public relations and communications industry to put ethics at the heart of everything it does as it begins the #POWERofETHICS campaign. Launched by the International Communications Consultancy Organisation (ICCO) to mark the beginning of Ethics Month this September, #POWERofETHICS will showcase methods through which PR associations and agencies around the world can educate and celebrate ethical practices both within their workplace and throughout the industry. To mark the start of ethics month, and further promote #POWERofETHICS, the PRCA will be…

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Think tanks and lobbying: statutory register must be expanded

Stuart Mitchell

Responding the recent press coverage about alleged links between think tanks and the lobbying process, the Public Relations and Communications Association (PRCA) has welcomed comments from Alison White, Registrar of Consultant Lobbyists, and again called for the statutory lobbying register to be expanded to include all lobbyists rather than simply some third-party consultants.  Francis Ingham MPRCA, Director General, PRCA, said: “Think tanks play a vibrant and vital part in the political process. But recent coverage simply adds to the mistaken belief that somehow the lobbying process is unethical and broken.…

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