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Servants of the people: a portrait of a modern civil service
04 Aug HR

Servants of the people: a portrait of a modern civil service

A huge diversity of people and roles make up the modern civil service. Here, some of them tell us their stories
by Civil Service World
'Tough choices' and antisemitism – what Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss said about the civil service this week
12 Aug HR
'Tough choices' and antisemitism – what Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss said about the civil service this week
The great pretenders: The top 10 fictional civil servants
12 Aug
The great pretenders: The top 10 fictional civil servants
Future-proofing healthcare resilience: lessons learned from the COVID-19 Infection Survey
08 Aug Health & Social Care
Future-proofing healthcare resilience: lessons learned from the COVID-19 Infection Survey
Short-term staff, long-term thinking
16 Feb 2010 HR
Short-term staff, long-term thinking

Once, interim managers concentrated on covering maternity leave. But now the demand is to cut costs – and civil service leaders are bringing in interims to plan and enact painful change programmes. Matt Ross reports.


Frontline: mental health nurse
16 Feb 2010 Health & Social Care
Frontline: mental health nurse

This week, a former mental health nurse explains why she left the profession just seven months after qualifying.


Head in the clouds
12 Feb 2010 Digital, Data & Technology
Head in the clouds

The Cabinet Office has launched a new strategy, setting out the future of information technology for the decade ahead. Ruth Keeling discovers ideas that could transform many government operations – including the ‘G-cloud.


Frontline: financial investigations police officer
10 Feb 2010 Economy
Frontline: financial investigations police officer

This week we meet a police officer who works to identify and recover the proceeds of crime.


Interview: Sir Brian Bender
10 Feb 2010
Interview: Sir Brian Bender

Sir Brian Bender’s Whitehall career ended last year after a stint leading the business department, but he watches government closely still – and has strong views on civil service reform and austerity. Matthew O’Toole hears them


Interview: Dominic Martin
10 Feb 2010 Economy
Interview: Dominic Martin

Dominic Martin represents the UK at the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, better known as the OECD. He tells Matthew O’Toole how Whitehall can get more out of the statistic-gathering organisation


Interview: Lisa Harker
10 Feb 2010 Policy
Interview: Lisa Harker

Lisa Harker co-leads IPPR, the think-tank most closely associated with the New Labour era. But as Matthew O’Toole hears, these days she’s just as keen to engage with other political parties – not to mention Whitehall


The good, the bad and the ugly
09 Feb 2010 Energy & Environment
The good, the bad and the ugly

The latest figures show that government bodies are making patchy progress towards their 2010-11 targets for sustainable operations. Ruth Keeling examines both what’s helping them improve, and what’s holding them back.


Interview: Ruth Keeling
08 Feb 2010
Interview: Ruth Keeling

The money public bodies spend on artwork or sculpture for their buildings is often seen as a frivolous waste. Penny Johnson, director of the Government Art Collection, gives Ruth Keeling the counter argument


Interview: Rowena Collins Rice
27 Jan 2010 Legal
Interview: Rowena Collins Rice

Lords reform, freedom of information, devolution, not to mention MPs’ expenses – policymakers and lawyers at the Ministry of Justice have had a busy decade. Ruth Keeling talks to constitutional issues chief Rowena Collins Rice


Interview: Rynd Smith
27 Jan 2010
Interview: Rynd Smith

Planning inspectors may be small in number, but they have a crucial say in our country’s development. Head of profession Rynd Smith tells Matthew O’Toole what qualities they need


Interview: Jonathon Porritt
27 Jan 2010 Energy & Environment
Interview: Jonathon Porritt

Having left the Sustainable Development Commission, veteran environment activist Jonathon Porritt can now speak freely on sustainability policy. Matthew O’Toole hears complaints that Whitehall has resisted change 


Interview: Andrew Haldenby
27 Jan 2010 Policy
Interview: Andrew Haldenby

In the first of a series of interviews with think-tank leaders, Matt Ross meets Andrew Haldenby: the plain-speaking director of influential, right-leaning think-tank Reform – and an ascerbic critic of the civil service


Interview: Richard Teuten
27 Jan 2010 Foreign Affairs
Interview: Richard Teuten

Without a coordinated approach to intervention in conflicts, both nations and departments can end up working at cross-purposes. Matt Ross meets Richard Teuten, who fosters over-arching UK strategies on armed struggles


A snowy slow-motion train wreck
08 Jan 2010 Justice & Home Affairs
A snowy slow-motion train wreck

In a week when the weather has disrupted travel and brought a surreal dimension to life, Edward Garnier still manages to be amazed by the latest abortive coup against the prime minister.


Frontline: social worker
11 Nov 2009 Operational Delivery
Frontline: social worker

This week’s interviewee works with young people leaving residential care, and is based in the social work department of a deprived, inner-city local authority in England.


Frontline: postman
09 Nov 2009 Operational Delivery
Frontline: postman

This week’s public servant is a part-time postman at a Royal Mail sub-post office, with experience in a major sorting office.


Interview: Richard Thomas - Champion of just causes
23 Sep 2009 Finance
Interview: Richard Thomas - Champion of just causes

Former information commissioner Richard Thomas has a new job: overseeing the government’s systems of administrative justice. He talks to Matt Ross about the challenges, potential and importance of both roles


Special report: Out of the darkness
10 Apr 2009 Operational Delivery
Special report: Out of the darkness

Special advisers occupy a twilight zone between elected politicians and the formal structures of the civil service. In a special report, we profile these ‘spads’ – the group Clare Short called “the people who live in the dark."


Interview: Andrew Mawson
29 Jan 2009
Interview: Andrew Mawson

Social entrepreneur Andrew Mawson has spent 25 years developing community projects, several of which have been adopted by government. But the public sector often kills the golden goose, he tells Matt Ross; to understand why, the civil service must recognise that “the way into the macro is through the micro”.


Interview: Paddy Ashdown
18 Nov 2008 Foreign Affairs
Interview: Paddy Ashdown

Paddy Ashdown, former Lib Dem leader and co-chair of the IPPR’s Commission on National Security, tells Matt Ross that we are ill-prepared for the challenges of a new era of globalised, decentralised power


Interview: Sir Bob Kerslake
18 Nov 2008 Culture
Interview: Sir Bob Kerslake

The Homes and Communities Agency has its formal launch on 1 December, charged with fostering housebuilding and regeneration. The economic climate could barely be more daunting – but Matt Ross finds its new head, Sir Bob Kerslake, characteristically relaxed


12 Feb 2008 Finance
Interview: Richard Heaton

As the top lawyer for two large Whitehall departments, Richard Heaton operates at the heart of the delivery environment. Here, he tells Matt Mercer about the role of government lawyers, and running his departmental law firm.


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