Exclusive interview: New DCMS perm sec Sarah Healey on making connections, government's data strategy, and driving diversity
As she settles in to a new job at her old department, Sarah Healey, permanent secretary at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, tells Suzannah Brecknell what it was like to return and why she wants to build more connections across the organisation
Una O’Brien urges public to hold politicians to account for repeated failings in next month’s...
"No doubt that Brexit has been a profound shock to the UK"
"No doubt that Brexit has been a profound shock to the UK"
Agency update urges communities to prepare for flooding
Agency urges people to ‘remain vigilant, check their flood risk and plan to stay safe’ amid...
Department seeks supplier to help it bring together information
The head of the National Audit Office has set out his priorities for the role in an exclusive...
Survey also shows 44% of people think government and regulators should be responsible for making...
Over two-year period BPDTS will have grown staff numbers from 451 to 1,124
FDA writes to Rupert McNeil over proposed pay rise for Fast Stream civil servants
Public sector pay cap key to "efficiencies" in services, think tank says
Pre-election talks with shadow ministers pose challenges for permanent secretaries – but are also an opportunity to meet ambitious manifesto commitments with an early dose of realism, says IfG's...
Brexit has created a political crisis, but the civil service has stopped it becoming even more destructive, says the former DWP perm sec
Boris Johnson has hailed his new Brexit deal with the EU ahead of a parliamentary vote tomorrow. What’s changed since the last one?
Former officials have an increasingly public role in national debate – is that always a good thing? Suzannah Brecknell explores how retired mandarins balance their duty to contribute to the public...
Alanna Reid, a policy adviser at the Cabinet Office’s public appointments policy team, reports on an intersectionality event held by the Cabinet Office LGBT+ Network and Gender Equality Group as...
Mallory Compton and Paul ’t Hart argue that knowing what went wrong in the past doesn’t always help governments get things right in the future
Martin Swain found a new home at Companies House almost a year ago. He tells Colin Marrs about...
From the storm of no-deal Brexit preparation to the headwinds of regulatory reform, Tamara...
As she steps down after nearly a decade as the nation’s doctor, Davies talks to Beckie...
Three years and three secretaries of state into his time as Ministry of Defence permanent...
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...
To mark the second annual Geographers in Government conference, Jon Pickstone explains how geographers’ skills can help improve policy and outcomes
The Department for International Trade has just helped host an international sporting event more than 6,000 miles away. Richard Johnstone finds out how they did it, and why this could the first of...
CSW's new podcast looks at the dynamics of the most important relationship in government
Some surprising figures have invited management consultants into Whitehall over the past six decades, although their private-sector expertise has not always been directed where it was needed most...
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