Exit interview: Philip Rycroft on keeping promises, morale and leaving DExEU
Philip Rycroft has spent much of his career working on devolution – the biggest force for change in the UK’s government until the EU referendum. He led the Department for Exiting the European Union from 2017 to the end of March this year, helping government try to deliver the result of that referendum. Suzannah Brecknell caught up with him to find out more about why that’s been so hard, and...
National Audit Office calls for ‘systematic approach’ to assessing capability and effectiveness...
£940,000 bill does not include VAT or cost of departmental officials' time
£940,000 bill does not include VAT or cost of departmental officials' time
Union criticises government’s £46.9m spent with supplier in 2018
Former director general for EU exit has been interim permanent secretary since April
Department highlights training of mental health first aiders globally as part of its...
Cunnington says new role is a "fantastic opportunity to build on our achievements at GDS"
Inspectorate sounds alarm after finding high levels of violence and self-harm at HMP Bristol
Grade 6 post will have join team developing the National Data Strategy
Theresa May announces boost to powers of Competition and Markets Authority to improve protection...
Department would draw up plans for multi-billion pound "shared prosperity fund", Stewart says...
As Theresa May’s time as prime minister comes to an end, Richard Johnstone asks Whitehall watchers to reflect on a tumultuous three years for officials
In these unprecedented circumstances, we should ditch the convention of confidentiality around civil servants’ advice to ministers – for the good of us all, says the FDA general secretary
Civil servants have always worked under pressure, but Brexit has upped the level considerably. Sneering at departments helping staff deal with stress benefits no-one, says Andrew Greenway
Whatever crisis the country faces, Liz Truss is always on hand to lambast civil servants
The government's Outsourcing Playbook addresses some big problems in outsourcing, but there are still gaps to be plugged, writes Benoit Guerin
Civil servants are rightly angry that MPs are getting almost double their pay increase after being told they cannot get any more because of affordability concerns, says Prospect’s Garry Graham
After working on some of the first “green investment” schemes in the 1990s, Emma Howard Boyd has...
Department’s chief digital information officer tells Civil Service World about...
After 10 years scrutinising government accounts and trying to stop departments from squandering...
The Office for Product Safety & Standards is one of a number of government bodies springing...
As the UK faces increasingly complex global threats, our defence and security organisations must...
As a director general at the Government Legal Department, Susanna McGibbon oversees legal...
In the latest of our series about civil service leavers, we meet former diplomat Lynda Burns who is retraining as a teacher through the NowTeach scheme
Since 2008 departments have been required to report data breaches every year. In this exclusive research, SA Mathieson digs through the numbers to uncover government's biggest security challenges...
A ground-breaking Scottish Government drive to better link policies to outcomes has just gone through a major overhaul. Richard Johnstone went to Edinburgh to hear more about the National...
Isabel Hardman’s examination of the inhabitants of parliament reveals some of the factors that have contributed to the country’s current crisis, writes Anthony Fitzsimmons
A vivid account by a meritocratic polymath, Lord Levene’s memoirs leave Peter Hennessy pondering why peacetime Britain produces so few ‘fixers’ of his calibre
As the Smiths legend turns 60, Civil Service World looks back to Morrissey’s time on the government paybill