Quality of Life code of practice: self assessment

Place making and place shaping is an ongoing learning journey, and so is developing effective, inclusive community consultation and engagement.

This self-assessment is designed to help you evaluate your place based engagement project and/or strategy by looking at what’s good, excellent and missing. It will also help you with a structure to reflect on good practice in your context, work towards excellent practice, and share good and excellent practice with others.

Self-assessment options

It’s up to you to decide how you would like to use this self-assessment.

You can use it as an internal self assessment against the 8 principles to see where you measure up against good practice.

If you would like to publicise your work as good or excellent practice, you can submit the self assessment to the Foundation for a light-touch review to provide the basis for a brief case study for publication on our website as good or excellent practice. You can send your self assessment to mail@qolf.org.

Carry out a self-assessment

Below you will be guided through a self-assessment process for a community consultation and/or engagement project or strategy that you have undertaken. You will be asked a series of questions about your practices, and offered opportunities for you to reflect on what went well and what could have gone better. At the end of the process, you will receive a report that explains how you score overall, how you score on consultation and on engagement, and how you score against the eight principles.

You will see a progress bar as you move through the questions so you know how much you have completed. In case you’re not able to complete it in one go, you can save the form at any time and pick back up where you left off within 30 days, before it expires.

To make the most of your assessment, we encourage you to be honest in your answers, so that you can use this as a real opportunity to learn.