Spending Review 2019? The cost of postponement, the opportunity of delay
A combination of Brexit and the Conservative leadership campaign has all but officially postponed the 2019 Spending Review. Beckie Smith and Richard Johnstone look at what impact the delay will have, and whether there are opportunities to be grasped in the extra time
Union says postponed revaluation of civil service scheme would have likely led to a cut in...
Further cost increases to much-delayed and over-budget programme "inevitable", committee says...
Further cost increases to much-delayed and over-budget programme "inevitable", committee says...
Outgoing prime minster Theresa May says tackling societal injustice requires a long-term focus...
Number of staff taking courses has more than trebled in last three years
Liz Truss says government stands by 2015 reforms to public service pensions after transitional...
Trade secretary Liam Fox says he hopes trainees "will be able to enjoy their whole career at DIT...
Emily Miles to head up watchdog from September after acting as environment ministry’s director...
Bernard Jenkin highlights the way Margaret Thatcher worked with the civil service to implement...
Department’s annual report details £46.5m rise against 700-strong boost in workers
To successfully handle new post-Brexit powers, public bodies across the UK will need to build on ways they already work together – and manage divergence – across the nations
Taking a stand for civil service impartiality is more important now than at any time in the past 100 years
Government chief commercial officer Gareth Rhys Williams has set out ambitious plans to improve contract management across government. He tells CSW what has been achieved in the first six months...
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
Philip Rycroft has spent much of his career working on devolution – the biggest force for change...
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...
Two years after he took up his post, Iain Bell, deputy national statistician for population and public policy, tells CSW how the agency has tapped new data sources to fill evidence gaps...
They play an increasingly important part in parliament’s scrutiny of government and can inspire dread in even the most experienced perm sec. Forty years on from the creation of the modern select...
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
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