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9 changes: 9 additions & 0 deletions app/assets/stylesheets/responsive/custom.scss
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<%= render partial: 'what_is_foi' %>
<%= render partial: 'patterns_of_use' %>
<%= render partial: 'how_do_we_help' %>
<%= render partial: 'frontpage_newsletter_signup' %>
<%= render partial: 'frontpage_blog' if Blog.enabled? %>
<%= render partial: 'frontpage_videos' %>
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<div class="homepage-article-section" id="homepage-article">
<div class="row homepage-article-section__ar-contet">
<div class="ar-content__headings ">
<h2><%= _('How does WhatDoTheyKnow help?') %></h2>
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<%= _('<strong>🔀 Find the right authority:</strong> A database of 46,000+ public bodies, kept up to date by a team of staff and volunteers.') %>
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<%= _('<strong>🗂️ Public archive:</strong> A permanent, searchable, public record of hundreds of thousands of information requests and responses.') %>
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<%= _('<strong>✍️ Write your request:</strong> Inline guidance and a collection of help pages to help write your request.') %>
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<%= _('<strong>🤖 Automate bureaucracy:</strong> Built in assistance and reminders to manage your request from submission to completion.') %>
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<%= _('<strong>🏟️ Correspond in public:</strong> Requests and responses are automatically published online with proof of delivery to hold authorities accountable to respond.') %>
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<%= _('<strong>🛑 Refusal advice:</strong> Encouragement, support, guidance and snippets to help challenge refusals at internal review, regulator appeal and tribunal<sup>(soon)</sup>.') %>
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<%= _('<a href="{{help_link}}">Learn more about {{site_name}}</a>. Want to know something? <a href="{{select_authority_link}}"> Start your own request &rarr;</a>', help_link: help_about_path, site_name: site_name, select_authority_link: select_authority_path) %>
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<div class="homepage-article-section" id="homepage-article">
<div class="row homepage-article-section__ar-contet">
<div class="ar-content__headings ">
<h2><%= _('How do I use Freedom of Information?') %></h2>

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<%= _('From <a href="https://twitter.com/WhatDoTheyKnow/status/1025388510474379264">coach drop off points</a> to <a href="https://www.mysociety.org/2019/09/02/foi-and-the-irish-border-issue/">national borders</a>; <a href="https://www.mysociety.org/2019/07/26/after-exploitation-using-foi-to-understand-what-happens-to-victims-of-modern-slavery/">modern slavery</a> to <a href="https://www.mysociety.org/2019/06/05/case-study-sold-from-under-you-by-the-bureau-of-investigative-journalism/">council sell-offs</a>, <em style="background-color:#ffd7005c;">Freedom of Information is a tool that everyone can use</em>. Individual or community group; journalist or campaigner. National or local; every day or now and then. Here are just a few of the ways that it can help…') %>
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<%= _('<strong>🔍 Find the evidence:</strong> Survey responses, research reports and board papers can help you to uncover the truth behind decisions and public statements.') %>
</p>
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</div>

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<%= _('<strong>⚖️ Compare and contrast:</strong> Compare the situation in your local area with what’s happening in other parts of the country and highlight disparities or similarities.') %>
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<%= _('<strong>💰 Follow the money:</strong> Contracts, invoices and budget information let you see where public money goes, ensuring greater accountability for how funds are allocated and spent.') %>
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<%= _("<strong>🧩 Fill in the gaps:</strong> You can ask a group of authorities to build or extract a dataset that didn't exist. This can fill knowledge gaps and improve public understanding of specific issues.") %>
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<%= _('<strong>🤔 Understand why:</strong> Meeting minutes, policy papers and internal correspondence can help you to understand why important decisions were taken, and who is accountable for those decisions.') %>
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<%= _('<strong>☀️ Promote openness:</strong> Asking for datasets can help to show that there is public demand to see it, which might persuade the authority to publish it themselves without needing to be asked.') %>
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<%= _('Read our <a href="https://www.mysociety.org/category/transparency/?tag=case-studies">case studies</a> for some great examples of how others have put these ideas to use.') %>
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<div class="homepage-article-section" id="homepage-article">
<div class="row homepage-article-section__ar-contet">
<div class="ar-content__headings ">
<h2><%= _('What is Freedom of Information?') %></h2>

<p class="ar-content__lede">
<%= _('Make a request for information to a UK public authority.') %><br>
<%= _('By law, they have to respond.') %>
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<%= _('The Freedom of Information Act, also known as <strong>FOI gives you the right to <a href="{{help_link}}">request recorded information</a> from public authorities</strong>.', help_link: help_requesting_path) %>
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<%= _('As well as documents and emails, it also covers things like spreadsheets, presentations, maps, videos and photographs.') %>
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<%= _('By law <strong>requests have to be answered promptly</strong> and within <a href="{{help_link}}">20 working days</a>.', help_link: help_requesting_path(anchor: 'quickly_response')) %>
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<%= _('<strong>In most cases information should be released</strong>, but various <a href="{{help_link}}">exemptions</a> allow authorities to withhold information.', help_link: help_exemptions_path) %>
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<p class="ar-content__lede">
<%= link_to _('Learn more about the Freedom of Information act &rarr;'), help_about_foi_path %>
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