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Ministerial reshuffles and the centre of government: What should civil servants expect now?
12 Sep Civil Service Reform

Ministerial reshuffles and the centre of government: What should civil servants expect now?

What’s changed? What does it mean for the centre of government? And how should civil servants and ministers adapt?
by Patrick Diamond and Vijay K. Luthra
Why I feel privileged to judge the Ethnic Minorities into Leadership Awards
17 Sep HR
Why I feel privileged to judge the Ethnic Minorities into Leadership Awards
If delivery is the government's focus, stability is one of the best ways to deliver it
09 Sep Operational Delivery
If delivery is the government's focus, stability is one of the best ways to deliver it
Home Responsibilities Protection – how a lack of trust and fear of scams can undermine government’s intentions
09 Sep
Home Responsibilities Protection – how a lack of trust and fear of scams can undermine government’s intentions
Opinion: Whitehall is good at starting government reforms, but must keep listening to disruptors to achieve lasting change
02 May 2018 Civil Service Reform
Opinion: Whitehall is good at starting government reforms, but must keep listening to disruptors to achieve lasting change

Many internationally lauded ideas for improving how government work have come from the UK – but even when they are copied many in the civil service view central reforming units like the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit to the Government Digital Service as irritants. This should change, says Andrew Greenway


Crossing policy’s ‘valley of death’: tips for bridging the gap between development and delivery
01 May 2018 Government Tax Profession
Crossing policy’s ‘valley of death’: tips for bridging the gap between development and delivery

There can often be a daunting space between policy development and delivery in government – a space where policy ideas can be undermined as they move from one team to another. Here are Infrastructure and Projects Authority chief executive Tony Meggs’s top tips for closing it


Opinion: unfair criticism of Home Office staff over Windrush deflects blame from cuts
23 Apr 2018 Foreign Affairs
Opinion: unfair criticism of Home Office staff over Windrush deflects blame from cuts

It is easy for politicians to blame immigration officers and other civil servants tasked with implementing immigration rules and regulations. But to do so unfairly distracts from the all but inevitable outcome of reducing the number of staff properly employed and trained to enforce immigration law


Bronwen Maddox: The case for saving outsourcing
18 Apr 2018 Commercial
Bronwen Maddox: The case for saving outsourcing

Companies will fail, but that doesn’t mean we must abandon outsourcing entirely – it’s a matter of picking the right circumstances, says Bronwen Maddox


The sacking of Nick Hardwick makes the case for parole reform
17 Apr 2018 HR
The sacking of Nick Hardwick makes the case for parole reform

The sacking of Nick Hardwick as chair of the Parole Board has raised questions about the future of the body – including how ministers will be able to find a successor, says Suzannah Brecknell


Opinion: Sending hundreds of civil servants to Brussels to talk trade is no substitute for detail
12 Apr 2018 Brexit
Opinion: Sending hundreds of civil servants to Brussels to talk trade is no substitute for detail

The UK government needs to set out proposals – not just send negotiators – to make progress on post-Brexit trade, says the Institute for Government’s Jill Rutter


How we're looking internationally to tackle public sector fraud
09 Apr 2018 Economics
How we're looking internationally to tackle public sector fraud

This year, the UK hosted the first International Public Fraud Symposiom. Mark Cheeseman, deputy director, public sector fraud at the Cabinet Office, explains how the event came about, and what his team learnt from their international colleagues


Nick Hardwick sacking: what next for the Parole Board and the Ministry of Justice?
06 Apr 2018 Justice & Home Affairs
Nick Hardwick sacking: what next for the Parole Board and the Ministry of Justice?

David Gauke’s dismissal of the head of the Parole Board following the John Worboys case raises questions about how the relationship between the board and the department will work in future


Dave Penman: ministers need a strategy to protect public servants from hostile media attacks
05 Apr 2018 Communications
Dave Penman: ministers need a strategy to protect public servants from hostile media attacks

The departure of the director of public prosecutions is just one example where public servants have faced scrutiny from a hostile media. It is time ministers had the courage to challenge unwarranted media attacks


DCMS is the right place for data policy – but the next step is a government data strategy
04 Apr 2018 Civil Service Reform
DCMS is the right place for data policy – but the next step is a government data strategy

Transferring data policy to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport is a welcome move, but the government needs to be clear about what it wants to do with all this data


Shared services: A strategy to finally appease overburdened civil servants – or another embarrassing failure?
03 Apr 2018 Brexit
Shared services: A strategy to finally appease overburdened civil servants – or another embarrassing failure?

It’s too early to say if shared services are coming of age or another false dawn. But I’d probably keep the champagne in the fridge for now


‘A kind of moral pilates’: why civil servants must seek out their failings to speak truth to power
27 Mar 2018
‘A kind of moral pilates’: why civil servants must seek out their failings to speak truth to power

Civil servants have a vital role in government so they must be honest enough to face up to their own fears and failings, says Claire Foster Gilbert


Julian McCrae: How to answer government’s accountability question
23 Mar 2018 Government Tax Profession
Julian McCrae: How to answer government’s accountability question

Whitehall accountability is focused on blame and governed by convention – but improvements are possible


Book review: The Naked Diplomat says Patrick Wright’s Foreign Office memoirs resonate across the decades
23 Mar 2018 Foreign Affairs
Book review: The Naked Diplomat says Patrick Wright’s Foreign Office memoirs resonate across the decades

In Patrick Wright’s Foreign Office memoirs Tom Fletcher finds moments that resonate across the decades – and some that don’t


Is Brexit leading to the recentralisation of Whitehall?
20 Mar 2018 Brexit
Is Brexit leading to the recentralisation of Whitehall?

How far are the massive changes brought on by Brexit accelerating the reversal of 1990s decentralisation, and will they usher in a more centralised machinery of government in the long term?


Whitehall’s new integrity champion must avoid corporate pap – and involve all civil servants in his mission
19 Mar 2018 Civil Service Reform
Whitehall’s new integrity champion must avoid corporate pap – and involve all civil servants in his mission

Following Jonathan Slater's "call to arms" on civil service integrity, the IfG's Daniel Thornton explains how to improve and what to avoid


Sir Paul Jenkins obituary: Jonathan Jones and Lord O’Donnell share their memories
16 Mar 2018 Government Tax Profession
Sir Paul Jenkins obituary: Jonathan Jones and Lord O’Donnell share their memories

The Treasury solicitor from 2006 to 2014 died on Monday 26 February. His successor at the Government Legal Department and the former cabinet secretary pay tribute to this exemplary civil servant and friend


Statistics are for everyone – as is UKSA’s new code of practice for government statisticians
13 Mar 2018 Culture
Statistics are for everyone – as is UKSA’s new code of practice for government statisticians

The UK Statistics Authority has updated its framework to ensure all public servants behave with integrity when handling data


No walk out in Whitehall: Civil servants have too much integrity to respond to MPs’ attacks
12 Mar 2018 Brexit
No walk out in Whitehall: Civil servants have too much integrity to respond to MPs’ attacks

Officials continue to serve the public interest despite DExEU’s Mr Lover Lover and a dodgy double act in the Commons


International Women’s Day: Antonia Romeo on how DIT is doing things differently to close the civil service gender gap
08 Mar 2018 Brexit
International Women’s Day: Antonia Romeo on how DIT is doing things differently to close the civil service gender gap

The creation of the Department for International Trade as a new department has allowed us to look afresh at how to put inclusion at the heart of our work


UK’s shift to top-down politics and a more subservient civil service risks mistakes over Brexit
28 Feb 2018 Brexit
UK’s shift to top-down politics and a more subservient civil service risks mistakes over Brexit

Jeremy Richardson explains how the British policy-making style has been steadily shifting away from governance and towards government, and why Brexit should usher in a return to the former


Want to learn about select committees? Try Parliament’s new open online course
27 Feb 2018 Education
Want to learn about select committees? Try Parliament’s new open online course

Parliament’s senior learning projects officer Claire Bogue describes the work behind a recently launched Massive Open Online Course on select committees


Opinion: We can no longer afford to fund defence on the cheap
23 Feb 2018 Commercial
Opinion: We can no longer afford to fund defence on the cheap

Every day staff see the pressure on defence caused by pay restraint, delays to procurement orders and purchasing of cheaper foreign equipment to cut costs


Jane Dudman: Time to hear women’s voices in policymaking
22 Feb 2018 Culture
Jane Dudman: Time to hear women’s voices in policymaking

The centenary of women’s suffrage is a good opportunity to start making sure government is held to account to properly measure the impact of decisions on woman


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