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'One crisis and I will be homeless': view from the civil service picket line
01 Feb Civil Service Reform

'One crisis and I will be homeless': view from the civil service picket line

CSW visited the Cabinet Office picket line, where PCS members are striking over pay amid the cost-of-living crisis
by Tevye Markson
Read the January 2023 issue of Civil Service World
30 Jan HR
Read the January 2023 issue of Civil Service World
'There have to be consequences for civil service pay erosion': Mike Clancy on Prospect's strike ballot
27 Jan HR
'There have to be consequences for civil service pay erosion': Mike Clancy on Prospect's strike ballot
Starting the year with inclusivity: how civil servants can become disability allies
23 Jan Communications
Starting the year with inclusivity: how civil servants can become disability allies
No country for old men?
10 Nov 2010
No country for old men?

Adult social care faces huge problems as spiralling demand meets constrained finances. Joshua Chambers investigates possible solutions, and examines how they fit with the government’s desire for localis


Special report: The hard road ahead
03 Nov 2010 Commercial
Special report: The hard road ahead

Civil service budgets will be a third smaller by 2014-15. Matt Ross, Suzannah Brecknell and Joshua Chambers examine how the government hopes to ensure that the cuts produce reforms, not just retrenchment.


Special report: The Treasury’s numbers – and the departments’ reactions
03 Nov 2010 Commercial
Special report: The Treasury’s numbers – and the departments’ reactions

Ben Willis examines how the administration budget cuts build on previous efficiency drives – and names the departments forging ahead with savings.


Who shares wins
03 Nov 2010
Who shares wins

Government property is set to be squeezed. But Joshua Chambers finds that tough times may catalyse greater sharing of property across the public sector, producing benefits for services as well as cost savings.


03 Nov 2010 Health & Social Care
Frontline: Residential care worker

This week’s interviewee works for a charity providing social care for people leaving psychiatric hospitals


Relocation, re-examined
02 Nov 2010
Relocation, re-examined

Six years after the relocation agenda was launched, more than 20,000 civil servants have left the Greater South-East for the North or West. Giles Barrie discovers that their colleagues are unlikely to follow them any time soon.


Building the Big Society
27 Oct 2010
Building the Big Society

The voluntary and community sector lies at the centre of the coalition’s plans to promote the Big Society, but the cuts are hitting it hard. Suzannah Brecknell examines how civil servants can work better with the VCS.


Interview: Douglas Carswell
26 Oct 2010
Interview: Douglas Carswell

Backbench MP Douglas Carswell played a key role in shaping the localist agenda. He tells Joshua Chambers why the Tory party must combat its own centralising tendencies – and why he enjoys coalition with the Lib Dems.


21 Oct 2010 Education
Frontline: Academy teacher

A teacher reflects on how turning a school into one of New Labour’s academies affects the quality of the teaching, the management – and the logos


The end of tiffs over TIF?
13 Oct 2010
The end of tiffs over TIF?

Tax Increment Financing – like other forms of hypothecated taxation – has long horrified the Treasury. But Stuart Watson finds attitudes changing, in the Exchequer as well as at Westminster and Holyrood.


Interview: Helen Ghosh
06 Oct 2010 Energy & Environment
Interview: Helen Ghosh

At Defra, Helen Ghosh ditched Whitehall’s traditional departmental structure in favour of a fluid, project-based system. Now, she tells Matt Ross, we’re facing an even greater revolution in relations between the centre and the front line


06 Oct 2010
Frontline: Volunteer coordinator

This week’s interviewee works for a youth charity, training and managing the volunteers who mentor and support unemployed young people


Waste reduction
01 Oct 2010
Waste reduction

The previous government’s waste-reduction targets did not prove testing enough to stretch most departments. Joshua Chambers looks at their impact, and examines how cutting waste can also cut public expenditure.


Old lags and new tricks
01 Oct 2010
Old lags and new tricks

One of David Cameron’s first acts as PM was to increase the pressure to shrink Whitehall’s carbon footprint. James Patterson says that a combination of common sense and modern technology can yield impressive results.


Driving innovation
30 Sep 2010 Commercial
Driving innovation

For years, the civil service has been urged to embrace innovation. Now shrinking budgets, the push for public sector reform and greater political appetite for risk are making this essential. Suzannah Brecknell reports.


The green kings, dethroned
30 Sep 2010
The green kings, dethroned

As the Sustainable Development Commission loses its funding, its chair and chief executive look back with Joshua Chambers at how the government’s sustainability has improved – and at what remains to be done.


Interview: Lord Bichard
28 Sep 2010
Interview: Lord Bichard

After 31 years as a public sector chief, Michael Bichard is stepping down as head of the Institute for Government. He tells Matt Ross that, even in a squeeze, the coalition must succeed where Blair failed – and reform public services.


A new direction for career ladders
24 Sep 2010 HR
A new direction for career ladders

The new ‘Vacancy Filling Scheme’ promises to radically open up the civil service jobs markets within each of the nine English regions. Ben Willis reports on an enlightened scheme launched at an unfortunate time.


Interview: Margaret Hodge
22 Sep 2010
Interview: Margaret Hodge

An appearance before the public accounts committee need no longer fill officials with dread, says its new chair, Margaret Hodge. She tells Suzannah Brecknell that she wants a more constructive relationship with civil servants


22 Sep 2010 Justice & Home Affairs
Frontline: Probation officer trainer

This week’s interviewee is a probation officer with nearly 30 years’ experience – both in the field, and as a trainer


Interview: Norman Baker
17 Sep 2010
Interview: Norman Baker

As central government spending falls, transport minister Norman Baker tells Joshua Chambers that if Whitehall gives local councils and businesses enough space and freedom, they’ll pick up the baton on green transport.


Interview: Lord Wei
17 Sep 2010
Interview: Lord Wei

We’ve heard a lot recently about the ‘Big Society’ – but what does it mean for civil servants? Lord Wei, the government’s new adviser on the subject, tells Suzannah Brecknell that he wants to see a fundamental shift in the work of government.


Reducing travel expenses
16 Sep 2010 HR
Reducing travel expenses

With pressure on the use of ministerial cars, ministers are taking humbler forms of transport. But there are far bigger savings to be made by reforming civil service travel expenses. Suzannah Brecknell reports.


08 Sep 2010
Frontline: School business manager

This week’s interviewee is a school business manager responsible for the financial and legal compliance aspects of an inner city school


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