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‘We need a comparison site, not an Amazon’ – what next for government tech procurement?
1 August 2019

Reforming IT procurement has long been seen as a prosaic counterpoint to the digital transformation of citizen services. As the government prepares to replace the landmark G-Cloud frameworks and the online buying platform that supports them, Sam Trendall talks to Crown Commercial Service technology director Niall Quinn about why government’s purchasing needs would be better served by a GoCompare than an Amazon

Decision time: exploring the new Government Finance Function strategy
29 July 2019

As the Government Finance Function launches its first five-year strategy, CSW reports from a workshop hosted to consider some of the challenges ahead

From loneliness to the high street: how the ONS is filling the data gaps in policymaking
10 July 2019

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 and improve policymaking

Trial by committee: How appearances before select committees affect the careers of top officials
25 June 2019

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 committee on 25 June 1979, Richard Vize looks at how they affect policy – and the lives of civil servants

Team spirit: Sir Mark Sedwill’s principles for leadership
24 June 2019

The cabinet secretary says his leadership style is founded on three core elements. Beckie Smith reports on Civil Service World’s 2019 leadership lecture

From Yes, Minister to On the Buses: Lessons on how Whitehall should work with the private sector
13 June 2019

Does it really matter who represents your department at stakeholder meetings – or whether you’ve done a secondment outside Whitehall? Yes, says insider-turned-outsider John Dowie, who moved to work for First Bus after a 27-year civil service career. Here, sharing his observations of government from the other side, he explains why

I was a civil servant, now I’m a... director of strategy for a charity
7 June 2019

In the latest of our series about civil service leavers, we meet former deputy principal private secretary to the prime minister Ed Whiting, who is now director of strategy for the Wellcome Trust

I was a civil servant, now I'm a... Spanish teacher
24 May 2019

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 

Testing times: a history of civil service exams
23 May 2019

Recruitment on merit is a core principle of the civil service, but it hasn’t always been. Dr Richard Willis takes a look at the introduction of civil service exams and how they have evolved over the years

Which government department suffers the most data breaches?
20 May 2019

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

National treasure: How the Scottish Government’s National Performance Framework is linking policies to outcomes
20 May 2019

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 Performance Framework

I was a civil servant, now I’m a… consultant in the Middle East
17 May 2019

In the latest instalment of our series on civil service leavers, we meet Andrew Morley, who after a working on policing and justice policy in the civil service, is now a consultant on public safety in the Middle East. He explains how he has used the skills he learnt as civil servant in a new environment

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The Capability Conundrum: Resourcing challenges in Government Commercial

30 September 2019

As austerity has loosened its grip, and with Brexit looming, government spend with consultancies has crept back up. The consultancy costs reported in departments’ annual reports totalled £332...

Why 'savings' is a dirty word in government

8 July 2019

The National Audit Office (NAO) estimates that there are over 100,000 commercial relationships in place across the five largest Whitehall departments, and there will be many more looking...

Is workforce transformation the key to improving commercial capability?

4 April 2019

This new report by Proxima examines the government's procurement strategy, and asks whether the transformations undertaken so far are effective in improving the commercial capabilities of...

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