DWP's new Blackpool office opens amid reports SR25 funding will depend on job relocations
12 May HR

DWP's new Blackpool office opens amid reports SR25 funding will depend on job relocations

3,000 officials will move to Talbot Gateway site as Cabinet Office ups pressure to move jobs "closer to frontline services"
by Beckie Smith
Call for 'bold investment decisions' to address prison crisis
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Sir Ian Diamond steps down as UK’s national statistician
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Corrupt Border Force official convicted for helping drugs gang
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Kevin Smith aided smugglers to bring class-A drugs into the country unchecked
Labour calls in heavy hitters to advise on 'modernising' HMRC
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Former HMRC perm sec Edward Troup is among expert panel that will also look at how to boost tax compliance
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PAC disputes department's suggestion that publishing data on the impact of algorithms would pose a fraud risk
Civil servants urged to voice anger over return-to-office drive
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Union calls on branches to consider following ONS' strike-action lead
Office-working decisions ‘should be for individual managers’, shadow chancellor says
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Reeves says she believes spending more time in the office is "good for productivity and morale"
Wragg stands down as PACAC chair after sharing MPs' numbers with scammer
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MP hands in resignation in fallout from "honeypot" sexting scam
Labour floats plan to boost HMRC headcount by 5,000
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Rebrand ‘elitist’ FCDO, urge former top diplomats
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Better call Saul: National Archives appoints BBC veteran as chief exec
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FCDO 'neglecting disabled people' in international development work
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MPs say gender-equality spending is monitored in a way that that disability inclusion work is not
Cabinet Office signs up UCL consultancy to evaluate Fast Stream
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Border Force strike at Heathrow suspended
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PCS union holds off on walkout in bid to leave room for talks over planned changes to shift patterns
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New appointments in the civil service, UK politics, and public affairs, via Dods People
Union eyes legal action to halt civil service work on arms exports to Israel
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Union eyes legal action to halt civil service work on arms exports to Israel
Former national security adviser says UK government needs to send "a powerful message" to Netanyahu
ONS officials vote to strike over in-office rule
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ONS officials vote to strike over in-office rule
Staff threaten walkout over being asked to spend two days a week in the office
Free childcare expansion 'feasible', DfE says amid concern over provision of places
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But a potential shortfall of childcare places is a risk to the reforms, according to perm sec Susan Acland-Hood
DWP confirms closure of temporary Covid jobcentres
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DWP confirms closure of temporary Covid jobcentres
Some 125 temporary jobcentres have now been closed, while the closure of 41 offices has also now been completed
RAAC found at five prisons, minister reveals
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RAAC found at five prisons, minister reveals
Edward Argar also admits government is only on target to provide 10,000 new prison places by 2025, falling short of 20,000 target
SCS performance management regime 'falls short' on diversity, union says
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Failure to address long-term pay issues also raised as Cabinet Office publishes 2024-25 framework
Interim SSRB chair reappointed as two-year hunt goes on
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Pippa Lambert reappointed to pay review body for six months
HMRC rapped for 'unsatisfactory' assurances on Making Tax Digital
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PAC urges perm sec to "reconsider" answers on how department will address concerns about accountability and software