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How effectively is government coordinating efforts to get more people into work through healthcare reform?
01 Jul Health & Social Care

How effectively is government coordinating efforts to get more people into work through healthcare reform?

Government is banking on the success of its health mission to stem the tide of health-related benefit claims. But is the approach joined up enough to have an impact?
by Susan Allott
'A truly co-designed, collaborative effort': How the Evaluation Task Force shook up its annual conference
26 Jun
'A truly co-designed, collaborative effort': How the Evaluation Task Force shook up its annual conference
Spending Review 2025: Tight times ahead, but no return to austerity
12 Jun Civil Service Reform
Spending Review 2025: Tight times ahead, but no return to austerity
Which tasks do public servants spend too long on? And how can AI help?
10 Jun Digital, Data & Technology
Which tasks do public servants spend too long on? And how can AI help?
Face: the final frontier
23 Jul 2013 Digital, Data & Technology
Face: the final frontier

Suzannah Brecknell hears Facebook’s policy chief Simon Milner discuss how government can use social media more effectively


Putting the taxpayer at the centre
22 Jul 2013 Operational Delivery
Putting the taxpayer at the centre

HM Revenue & Customs has been given £200m to improve customer service. Winnie Agbonlahor reports on the progress so far.


Transparency chief Paul Maltby on his new innovation role
18 Jul 2013 Digital, Data & Technology
Transparency chief Paul Maltby on his new innovation role

How do you get civil servants to try new things? Joshua Chambers meets Paul Maltby, a man who thinks he knows the answer.


Interview: Jane Platt, NS&I
17 Jul 2013 Economy
Interview: Jane Platt, NS&I

Jane Platt is chief executive of NS&I, Britain’s venerable state-owned savings bank. She talks to Joshua Chambers about keeping rival financial institutions sweet, diversity in the City, and the future for arm’s-length bodies.


Interview: Robert Rogers, Clerk of the House of Commons
16 Jul 2013 Legal
Interview: Robert Rogers, Clerk of the House of Commons

This week the House of Commons is celebrating the passage of 650 years since it appointed its first clerk. Winnie Agbonlahor speaks to the incumbent, Sir Robert Rogers.


The Conservative iconoclast
15 Jul 2013 Leadership
The Conservative iconoclast

PASC chair Bernard Jenkin is highly critical of aspects of the civil service – but he’s sympathetic to civil servants themselves, and earlier this month an audience of officials gave his arguments a warm reception. Matt Ross reports.


All Heaton, any light?
11 Jul 2013 Finance
All Heaton, any light?

Cabinet Office permanent secretary Richard Heaton used his first appearance at the Public Administration Select Committee to give a bullish appraisal of Civil Service Reform progress. Suzannah Brecknell reports.


Interview: Ian Watmore
11 Jul 2013 Commercial
Interview: Ian Watmore

After less than two years leading the coalition’s civil service efficiency drive, Ian Watmore has quit for a life as a vicar’s husband. Giving his press officers the slip, he explains to Joshua Chambers what he’s learned in the job


Frontline: Hospital senior house officer
08 Jul 2013 Health & Social Care
Frontline: Hospital senior house officer

A hospital doctor says government edicts and the fear of litigation are limiting medical staffs’ freedom to learn their trade and act in their patients’ best interests. Tom Barfield reports.


The secret life of drones
05 Jul 2013 Foreign Affairs
The secret life of drones

Though their origins lie in military applications, drones are increasingly being used in a civilian context. Winnie Agbonlahor reports on how the public sector might capitalise on the opportunities around unmanned aircraft.


Interview: Mark Russell, Shareholder Executive
03 Jul 2013 Commercial
Interview: Mark Russell, Shareholder Executive

As chief executive of the Shareholder Executive, Mark Russell is responsible for overseeing the running of more than 20 government-owned businesses. Joshua Chambers meets him to discuss transparency, pay and privatisation


Interview: Bernard Gray
02 Jul 2013
Interview: Bernard Gray

The MoD is consistently out-negotiated by its private sector suppliers, chief of defence materiel Bernard Gray tells Matt Ross: he wants to bring in some serious firepower from private business to work on our defence procurement


Interview: Guy Lodge, IPPR
28 Jun 2013 HR
Interview: Guy Lodge, IPPR

In pursuit of the IPPR’s findings on perm sec appointments, Winnie Agbonlahor tracks down report author Guy Lodge.


Interview: Shaun Kingsbury, Green Investment Bank
25 Jun 2013 Economy
Interview: Shaun Kingsbury, Green Investment Bank

The coalition’s Green Investment Bank has been tasked with boosting private investment in the green economy – a high-potential sector constrained by limited finance. Winnie Agbonlahor meets chief executive Shaun Kingsbury.


Round table: Bagging the best
24 Jun 2013 Education
Round table: Bagging the best

Outgunned on salaries by the private sector, the civil service often struggles to recruit and retain world-class talent. Stuart Watson attends a CSW round table on how to bring top employees into Whitehall – and keep them there.


Frontline: Council social development officer
21 Jun 2013
Frontline: Council social development officer

This week’s interviewee works for a council, giving policy advice and running projects with charities and the local community.


Appealing to a higher authority
20 Jun 2013 Legal
Appealing to a higher authority

As the Bishop of Liverpool’s effective Hillsborough panel demonstrates, inquiries don’t always require huge amounts of time and money. Presenting a spotter’s guide to inquiries, Suzannah Brecknell tracks their continuing evolution.


Interview: Tim Moss, Companies House
19 Jun 2013 Commercial
Interview: Tim Moss, Companies House

Companies House chief Tim Moss runs a happy team in laid-back Cardiff, but there’s plenty of tensions in his job – like those between deregulation and tackling fraud, or open data and revenue generation. Matt Ross meets him


MPs call for compulsory training for ministers and fewer reshuffles
14 Jun 2013
MPs call for compulsory training for ministers and fewer reshuffles

All new ministers should undergo compulsory training and yearly appraisals led by one minister in the Cabinet Office, according to the Political and Constitutional Reform Committee’s report published today.


How to be a minister
14 Jun 2013 Education
How to be a minister

Very few jobs these days can be undertaken without any qualifications or tuition – but if you’re running the country, you may not even receive an induction. Joshua Chambers reports on the prospects for ministerial training.


The board will see you now
10 Jun 2013 Leadership
The board will see you now

Over the last year the chairman of Standard Life, Gerry Grimstone, has been visiting Ministry of Defence offices to meet and speak with civil servants from across the department. It's not a very personal bid for defence civil servants to reconsider their savings choices, but part of his role as the department's lead non-executive director. Grimstone, in common with many other departmental non-executive directors, wants to improve communications between boards and civil servants.


Frontline: JCP personal adviser
04 Jun 2013 Operational Delivery
Frontline: JCP personal adviser

This week’s interviewee works for Jobcentre Plus, handling benefit claims and helping people to find work


Interview: Mark Grimshaw, RPA
03 Jun 2013 Digital, Data & Technology
Interview: Mark Grimshaw, RPA

The Rural Payments Agency (RPA) spent years engulfed in painful criticism. Mark Grimshaw, who came in as chief executive two years ago determined to turn things around, tells Winnie Agbonlahor how he’s smartened up its act


Round table: Retail therapy
31 May 2013 Commercial
Round table: Retail therapy

The Social Value Act came into force at the start of this year, requiring public bodies to consider using procurement to produce wider benefits. Winnie Agbonlahor reports on a round table held to discuss the new law’s implications.


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