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Outgoing civil service commissioners highlight concerns that pay restrictions are limiting the attractiveness of some posts, while slow recruitment processes stop departments hiring top candidates
Rules introduced by ministers to stop legal aid being granted to prisoners in certain situations have been deemed unlawful by the Court of Appeal
Outgoing Food Standards Agency chief executive Catherine Brown believed she had a job with a low media profile until the horse meat scandal raced over the horizon. She tells Mark Smulian about the changes she has made in the department over the last five years and her plans for the future
Theresa May’s advisers “lack strategic perspective” to take advantage of the opportunities of Brexit, a former Treasury minister has said.
New appointments in the civil service, UK politics, and public affairs, via our colleagues at Dods People
Foreign secretary’s mayoral fixer becomes non-executive director at King Charles Street
Former Cabinet Office minister says his perception of the civil service went “downhill a lot” during the coalition government
Select committee voices fears Brexit process may cause departments to miss implications of new European laws
Cash to help pensioners pay their fuel bills should be diverted to prop up the “shambolic” social care system, a government advisor has said.
Justice Select Committee raises spectre of more fragmented services and weakened economies of scale from latest reform drive
Department launches recruitment drive for £110k post to underpin “huge” change programme
BT has appointed a new senior executive, Mark Sexton, to head up its public sector business in London and the South East and implement a new strategic direction to increase its local presence
Civil Service World brought together a panel of IT experts from across the civil service to explore the opportunities and challenges presented by the use of data in policymaking and delivery
New Office for Health and Care Sustainability should also be created to identify funding pressures across both sectors
Changes to be judged on how funding can promote sustainability of services and reduce worklessness
Public Accounts Committee calls for forensic audit of spending at UK Trade & Investment after concluding contractor took advantage of arm’s-length body
Rise in spending through aid outsourcing has turned DfID into a commissioning department, say MPs
Committee says more work is needed on the economic impact of leaving the EU on WTO terms
Think tank says data dashboards have the potential to mislead and urges government to boost staff’s data science skills
Alex Holmes announced that he is to become deputy director of cyber security at the department
Her Majesty's Prison and Probation Service replaces National Offenders Management Service as Ministry of Justice takes over the commissioning and monitoring of prison and probation services
Now that the government has begun the Article 50 process, the Brexit honeymoon period will be over for Theresa May. Securing a deal which pleases everyone – or indeed anyone – will be virtually impossible
Former Treasury civil servant Sir David Norgrove wants to raise the status of statisticians and economists in government
Brexit blamed for increase in churn levels at central department