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    DWP annnounces 60% in-office rule across all grades from September
    09 May HR

    DWP annnounces 60% in-office rule across all grades from September

    PCS says the decision is "a backward step" and that trusting staff to work from home "has been shown to improve productivity"
    by Tevye Markson
    Sir Ian Diamond steps down as UK’s national statistician
    09 May HR
    Sir Ian Diamond steps down as UK’s national statistician
    Union anger as ex-cabinet minister accuses officials of being Putin-appeasers
    09 May Foreign Affairs
    Union anger as ex-cabinet minister accuses officials of being Putin-appeasers
    Agentic AI ‘could boost government productivity by 20-30%’, former lead NED says
    09 May Digital, Data & Technology
    Agentic AI ‘could boost government productivity by 20-30%’, former lead NED says
    Ebola crisis: how UK civil servants kept the public informed and tackled scaremongering
    30 Mar 2016 Civil Service Reform
    Ebola crisis: how UK civil servants kept the public informed and tackled scaremongering

    DfID’s Angela Balakrishnan tells Max Goldbart how cross-government working and innovative content helped to keep the public informed at the height of the Ebola outbreak


    What can Barack Obama's digital adviser teach the civil service about talent hunting?
    29 Mar 2016 Civil Service Reform
    What can Barack Obama's digital adviser teach the civil service about talent hunting?

    A new book by Beth Simone Noveck – a former open-government adviser to both US president Barack Obama and prime minister David Cameron – contains useful lessons for the civil service on finding the right expertise


    Ministry of Defence to vacate ten more sites as department seeks to shrink estate
    29 Mar 2016 Civil Service Reform
    Ministry of Defence to vacate ten more sites as department seeks to shrink estate

    Latest batch of MoD land disposals will "make the defence estate more efficient and better suited to the needs of our armed forces", says minister Mark Lancaster


    Ministers press ahead with Land Registry privatisation plans – as PCS and Labour hit out
    29 Mar 2016 Civil Service Reform
    Ministers press ahead with Land Registry privatisation plans – as PCS and Labour hit out

    Consultation says moving 4,500 civil servants to the private sector will "bring new knowledge and investment" into the Land Registry – but PCS union says plans are driven by "short-term political choice, not economic necessity"


    Civil servants could be asked to list parents' jobs as Matt Hancock launches new social mobility drive
    24 Mar 2016 Civil Service Reform
    Civil servants could be asked to list parents' jobs as Matt Hancock launches new social mobility drive

    Departments to spearhead use of HR metrics, and target apprenticeships and internships at working class kids, as Cabinet Office updates its diversity Talent Action Plan


    Cabinet Office launches research centre to probe success of payment by results schemes
    24 Mar 2016 Commercial
    Cabinet Office launches research centre to probe success of payment by results schemes

    Government Outcomes Lab being set up in partnership with Oxford’s Blavatnik School of Government​ in a bid to assess the impact of outcome-based commissioning ​schemes


    BIS Sheffield closure: PCS union mulls strike as perm sec Martin Donnelly defends plans
    24 Mar 2016 Economics
    BIS Sheffield closure: PCS union mulls strike as perm sec Martin Donnelly defends plans

    Largest civil service union to ballot members on closure of Department for Business, Innovation and Skills St Paul's Place site – as permanent secretary Martin Donnelly tells MPs the decision will "make policy work more cost-effectively"


    Interview: Defra permanent secretary Clare Moriarty on flooding, Extended Ministerial Offices and modernising her department
    24 Mar 2016 Civil Service Reform
    Interview: Defra permanent secretary Clare Moriarty on flooding, Extended Ministerial Offices and modernising her department

    Since Clare Moriarty became permanent secretary of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs last August, she has found herself drawing on three decades of Whitehall experience to tackle challenges like flooding and organisational reform. Jess Bowie meets her


    The EU’s global perspective on climate change Sponsored
    23 Mar 2016 Economy
    The EU’s global perspective on climate change

    Juan Garcés de Marcilla, Director of Copernicus Services, ECMWF, explains the purpose of the EU’s earth observation programme and the economic and moral imperative to act on the insight it provides.


    Cabinet Office must 'raise its game' in challenging departments over commercial performance – public accounts committee
    23 Mar 2016 Commercial
    Cabinet Office must "raise its game" in challenging departments over commercial performance – public accounts committee

    PAC says "encouraging signs of change" on the commercial front – but urges Cabinet Office to do more to chase up departments who are failing to make progress


    Civil servants don’t provide enough challenge – and Ken Clarke thinks pay restraint is taking a toll: former coalition ministers share frustrations
    23 Mar 2016 Civil Service Reform
    Civil servants don’t provide enough challenge – and Ken Clarke thinks pay restraint is taking a toll: former coalition ministers share frustrations

    A lack of challenging advice, no control over important appointments and poor management information are among the frustrations voiced by David Laws, Greg Barker, Ken Clarke, Stephen Hammond and Baroness Kramer speaking in the latest interviews under the Institute for Government's 'Ministers Reflect' series


    Government outlines plans for Digital Marketplace expansion
    23 Mar 2016 Civil Service Reform
    Government outlines plans for Digital Marketplace expansion

    Cabinet Office's Warren Smith wants service to become the first port of call for procurement


    HS2 must change its defensive culture and embrace transparency say MPs
    23 Mar 2016 Government Tax Profession
    HS2 must change its defensive culture and embrace transparency say MPs

    MPs have criticised a culture of “defensive communication and misinformation” at HS2


    Public appointments watchdog will not be in thrall to ministers, says Peter Riddell, after warning from outgoing head Sir David Normington
    22 Mar 2016 Government Tax Profession
    Public appointments watchdog will not be in thrall to ministers, says Peter Riddell, after warning from outgoing head Sir David Normington

    Government's preferred candidate to succeed Sir David Normington as Commissioner for Public Appointments says revamped process for filling top public jobs will not result in ministers "just being able to get who they want"


    Being Bold in the Public Sector Sponsored
    22 Mar 2016 Civil Service Reform
    Being Bold in the Public Sector

    Microsoft considers the safest way to push the boundaries of innovation


    Speaking truth unto Donald Trump – how can civil servants stop authoritarian leaders making poor choices?
    22 Mar 2016 Fraud, Error Debt & Grants
    Speaking truth unto Donald Trump – how can civil servants stop authoritarian leaders making poor choices?

    Looking back on past government blunders, it’s hard not to think senior officials could have done more to persuade politicians to take better decisions, argues former senior civil servant Martin Stanley 


    David Cameron to chair Cobra in wake of Brussels blasts
    22 Mar 2016
    David Cameron to chair Cobra in wake of Brussels blasts

    Belgium's national terror alert raised to its highest level following attacks


    Department for International Development must not lose sight of poverty focus as more departments take on aid spending – MPs
    22 Mar 2016 Civil Service Reform
    Department for International Development must not lose sight of poverty focus as more departments take on aid spending – MPs

    International Development Committee gives broad backing to UK's new aid strategy – but warns DfID not to lose sight of poverty focus as other departments take on responsibility for spending development assistance funds


    Special report: As devolution gathers pace, is Whitehall really ready to let go?
    22 Mar 2016 Civil Service Reform
    Special report: As devolution gathers pace, is Whitehall really ready to let go?

    Passing powers from Whitehall to local areas is a key government goal. But do civil servants have enough understanding of what is happening on the ground to make the policy work? Colin Marrs talks to experts and officials to find out


    Sir David Normington: The five reasons I'm concerned about plans to overhaul the public appointments process
    21 Mar 2016 Government Tax Profession
    Sir David Normington: The five reasons I'm concerned about plans to overhaul the public appointments process

    The outgoing Commissioner for Public Appointments Sir David Normington warns that proposals to change the way ministers make appointments to top public posts would represent a step in the wrong direction — and could undermine progress in making sure jobs are awarded on merit


    PACAC's Bernard Jenkin urges Jeremy Heywood to withdraw 'confusing' EU vote rules for civil servants after taking legal advice
    21 Mar 2016 HR
    PACAC's Bernard Jenkin urges Jeremy Heywood to withdraw "confusing" EU vote rules for civil servants after taking legal advice

    Committee chair Bernard Jenkin warns cabinet secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood that guidance on support for pro-Brexit ministers could leave officials exposed during legal proceedings — but Heywood says withdrawing them "would simply create uncertainty and confusion"


    DCLG drafts in council chief Jo Farrar as new director general for local government
    18 Mar 2016 Government Tax Profession
    DCLG drafts in council chief Jo Farrar as new director general for local government

    Bath and North East Somerset Council's Jo Farrar set to join Department for Communities and Local Government's senior management team


    Office for National Statistics eyes new £17m data facilities in wake of Bean Review
    18 Mar 2016 Civil Service Reform
    Office for National Statistics eyes new £17m data facilities in wake of Bean Review

    New data science projects given the go-ahead in this week’s Budget will give the nation richer and more precise economic figures, the Office for National Statistics has said


    Jane Dudman: MyCSP's troubles paying civil service pensions show the danger of change for its own sake
    18 Mar 2016 Commercial
    Jane Dudman: MyCSP's troubles paying civil service pensions show the danger of change for its own sake

    There is much to learn from the MyCSP fiasco, which has caused a great deal of distress to people who have worked hard for the civil service


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