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Frontline now has an iCSP forum to support the magazine's editor and journalists produce a top quality magazine relavant to members' needs.

Readers forum on iCSP

The forum has evolved from the Frontline readers panel set up in 2007. It is hoped the forum will enable many more members to play a part in ensuring Frontline remains fit for purpose.

The main role of the forum is to support Frontline's editor and staff journalists to produce a top-quality magazine that remains highly relevant to members and responsive to their needs.

Forum members will play an important role in commenting on content and feeding into ideas for forthcoming editions, and helping the Frontline editorial team gain a greater understanding of the key issues facing the profession. Day-to-day editorial decisions, however, will remain the responsibility of the editorial team and articles will be written by staff or commissioned journalists.

The forum will provide valuable support in the following areas:

• Helping maintain quality: the forum will take an advisory role in helping the editorial team ensure that the content is relevant and that quality is maintained. We will regularly ask forum members to comment frankly on specific aspects of a sample edition from the last three months.
• Acting as a sounding board: forum members will be asked to help the editorial team ensure content is useful by commenting informally on forward plans and particular stories. For example, in planning to publish a particular piece of research, we may ask forum members to tell us what’s new about it, what it will add to the knowledge base and how many of our members will find it useful.
• Extending our contacts base: from time to time we may ask forum members to input into articles we are writing, and we may want to quote forum members in the articles. We may also ask forum members to identify appropriate interviewees or innovative services to feature in articles.