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Perm secs round-up 2022: Civil service leaders reflect on their highs and lows
30 Dec 2022 Leadership

Perm secs round-up 2022: Civil service leaders reflect on their highs and lows

Civil service leaders share their highlights and toughest calls, and remember Christmases past
by 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
Connect Four: Top networking tips from a Civil Service Awards winner
16 Jan HR
Connect Four: Top networking tips from a Civil Service Awards winner
Working to a tartan template
02 Jul 2010
Working to a tartan template

We haven’t had a coalition government in Westminster since the 1940s – but Scottish civil servants have almost ten years of recent experience in working for a coalition. Joshua Chambers went to Holyrood to pick their brains


Information Commissioner data reveals doubling in NHS data breaches, despite previous warning
02 Jul 2010
Information Commissioner data reveals doubling in NHS data breaches, despite previous warning

The number of data breaches in the NHS has increased in the last year, despite a previous call by the Information Commissioner for the service to tackle security breaches.


01 Jul 2010
Frontline: Social worker, child protection

This week’s interviewee works in the child protection unit of a city council, and has nine years’ experience as a social worker


Interview: John Armitt
01 Jul 2010
Interview: John Armitt

The Olympic Games construction project is constantly being scrutinised – not only by the media, but also by large numbers of stakeholders. Joshua Chambers talks to the man under the spotlight: ODA chairman John Armitt


Interview: Kevin Sadler
01 Jul 2010
Interview: Kevin Sadler

The Tribunals Service has increased productivity while facing an increased workload – and it’s done so without the help of external consultants. Its boss Kevin Sadler tells Joshua Chambers about his in-house efficiency team


The battle for hearts and minds
28 Jun 2010 Security & Defence
The battle for hearts and minds

The new National Security Council will draw a range of departments into crucial decisions on security. Matt Ross reports on the coalition’s attempt to win cross-government consensus in a complex and unpredictable world.


18 Jun 2010 Economy
Salaries in the spotlight

What does the list of the 172 highest-earning public servants tell us about the upper echelons of government? Suzannah Brecknell reports.


Frontline: General practicioner
16 Jun 2010 Health & Social Care
Frontline: General practicioner

This week’s interviewee is a GP with more than 20 years’ experience as a partner in an urban practice


Interview: Martha Lane Fox
16 Jun 2010 Digital, Data & Technology
Interview: Martha Lane Fox

Martha Lane Fox, the government’s online access tsar, got a shock last week when No 10 axed her planned digital services unit. But she’s already busy trying to catch people’s interest in web access, she tells Anthony Alexander


03 Jun 2010 Legal
On hard work and low pay

While civil service salaries come under pressure, the government has announced a bold legislative programme. Joshua Chambers picks out the key bills which will affect officials’ work – including the plans for welfare reform.


03 Jun 2010 Commercial
Buyers beware

The UK's untidy system of public procurement is costing us millions, the NAO's Keith Davis tells Matt Ross; only a radical shake-up will ensure that cash is spent in a way that gets the best possible deal for the public purse.


Fighting for the fund
03 Jun 2010
Fighting for the fund

The Civil Service Benevolent Fund has been helping civil servants for more than 120 years. But its chief executive tells Matt Ross that as demand for its services increases, the organisation is facing a painful resource squeeze.


Choosing the right tools for the job
03 Jun 2010
Choosing the right tools for the job

Following in the footsteps of local government, Whitehall is set to accelerate the outsourcing of services and functions. Stuart Watson monitors progress – and looks for lessons in some major recent outsourcing programmes.


02 Jun 2010
Calls to action

From their standpoint outside government, some of Britain’s top professional bodies talk of the priorities for their colleagues in the civil service – and their fears that the professionalisation agenda will come under pressure in future.


Interview: Merrick Willis
02 Jun 2010
Interview: Merrick Willis

The Civil Service Benevolent Fund has been helping civil servants for more than 120 years. But its chief executive tells Matt Ross that as demand for its services increases, the organisation is facing a painful resource squeeze


Frontline: Neighbourhood warden
02 Jun 2010
Frontline: Neighbourhood warden

With seven years’ experience as a neighbourhood warden, this week’s interviewee now manages a team of wardens in a major English city


02 Jun 2010
An alternative future?

After all the talk of electoral reform, the Lib Dems have won a promise of a referendum on AV. Dr Ken Ritchie is distinctly underwhelmed.


Interview: Keith Davis
02 Jun 2010
Interview: Keith Davis

The UK’s untidy system of public procurement is costing us millions, the NAO’s Keith Davis tells Matt Ross; only a radical shake-up will ensure that cash is spent in a way that gets the best possible deal for the public purse


02 Jun 2010 Finance
A cut above

No-one now doubts that Britain faces an era of public spending cuts – but we won’t be the first country to have dealt with them. Matthew O’Toole finds some encouraging examples of how other nations have coped in tough times.


Interview: Sir Richard Mottram
02 Jun 2010
Interview: Sir Richard Mottram

Sir Richard Mottram enjoyed a wide-ranging and colourful Whitehall career, though he missed out on the top job. He talks to Matthew O’Toole about a life in the civil service, and gives his views on how best to manage reform


21 May 2010 Commercial
Pulling together

The government’s £220bn procurement spend offers plenty of potential for big savings. But as Emma Clarke finds, if government agencies are to make those savings, they’ll have to start working together much more closely.


Frontline: Housing association manager
19 May 2010
Frontline: Housing association manager

This week’s interviewee works for the home ownership branch of a housing association


19 May 2010
Setting an example

If the election produces a hung Parliament, civil servants will look to Scotland, which has seen both a coalition and a minority government. Ruth Keeling gets some tips from its permanent secretary, Sir John Elvidge.


19 May 2010
A bridge too far?

For a decade, the devolved administrations have been altering services to suit their own populations. But as Shafik Meghji finds, when services diverge, the resulting cross-border tensions can hit service users.


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