Abbey service celebrates life of Jeremy Heywood
Laughter and tears as prime ministers, former colleagues and a pop star pay tribute to late cabinet secretary
The cabinet secretary says his leadership style is founded on three core elements. Beckie Smith...
McLean was awarded damehood for services to mathematical biology and advice to government
New appointments in the civil service, UK politics, and public affairs, via our colleagues at...
Liaison Committee says select committees should grill any ministerial appointment nominee...
Home Office to pay extra £82m to Motorola as contract for service roll-out extended
Staff vote in favour of settlement that represents 3% pay rise
National Audit Office calls for ‘systematic approach’ to assessing capability and effectiveness...
MoJ rejects call to review Transforming Rehabilitation reforms in long-delayed response to...
£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
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
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...
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