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Department for Work and Pensions details plans to fix historic Employment and Support Allowance underpayments

EU summit concludes Brexit deal unlikely to be signed off next month as negotiations continue

Department call matched by new NHS Digital framework on data and technology standards

The newest profession in the Government Communication Service focuses on improving the way government talks directly to key stakeholders. Jonathan Owen speaks to members of the new External Affairs Forum to find out more

Oliver Dowden says that it is part of the job of officials to raise problems with policy plans

The science chief will advise on areas such as artificial intelligence, cyber security, space technology and chemical, biological and missile defence 

Cabinet Office says opening of new office for more than 6,000 civil servants a key milestone in efforts to rationalise government property portfolio

Sedwill said anonymous sniping was 'unacceptable' the week after HMRC chief Jon Thompson received death threats

Diversity and inclusion must be "an integral part of every part of the defence operating model", according to the strategy

The policies may be in place, but is it happening in practice? BT's Bas de Graaf looks at the reality of GDPR today

The department's slow response to a price hike last year was "doubly worrying in the context of uncertainty over supply chains after Brexit", committee chair Meg Hillier said

New appointments in the civil service, UK politics, and public affairs, via our colleagues at Dods People

After it won the Civil Service Communication Award last year, Helen Duggan, head of marketing for Public Health England, reflects on how the Stay Well This Winter campaign leveraged people's trust in health professionals to change their behaviour

Tom Smith, managing director of the ONS Data Science Campus, tells CSW's sister title PublicTechnology how and why he wants to 'move the needle' for the use of data across the public sector

Jon Thompson's revelation that the police had investigated two threats after he gave evidence on Brexit custom costs “represents an escalation that cannot be tolerated”

MPs slam “serious administrative failings” in communicating nominations for public appointments

Roderick Crawford of SAS on real use cases, powerful outcomes, and how to achieve them

Thompson says that it is incumbent on civil servants to tell truth to power after speaking of personal impact of comments on Brexit

Five of the service’s seven existing commercial partners will assume responsibility for the product

To mark World Mental Health Day, CSW asked two of the civil service's mental health first aiders to reflect on what they've learned so far

Unions criticises home secretary Sajid Javid’s lack of engagement after members had rejected pay plan

Lord Deben is as intrepid and combative an advocate for the environment as anyone concerned about climate change could want. Better known as John Gummer, the former environment minister and now chair of the Committee on Climate Change tells Geoffrey Lyons why the UK’s current climate trajectory is worrying, and how it will be affected by Trump and Brexit.

International development secretary Penny Mordaunt calls for ‘national conversation’ to promote private investment in aid as part of reset of DfID’s work

Rising demand for services “will make it even harder to achieve the government’s ambition”, the watchdog said