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Union demands answers after 2,000 staff at Home Office division earmarked for return to work despite coronavirus lockdown

Cabinet secretary also encourages departmental staff to make time to relax – safely – over the Easter weekend

MPs reject offer of private briefings and call on home secretary and new perm sec to appear at virtual evidence session

Tax agency in talks with PCS over coronavirus protocol for HMRC offices

PM tells MPs government has “scaled back” work on integrated review as resources are diverted to tackle the coronavirus response

As part of a new series on global responses to coronavirus, Professor Talbot talks to former MP and minister Tom Levitt about the role that companies play in driving social change, and how some firms are helping governments tackle the covid-19 crisis 

How are public managers across the world responding to the Covid-19 pandemic? In a series of video interviews, Prof Colin Talbot speaks to senior officials, politicians and academics to explore different approaches and lessons that could be shared

In the first of a new series exploring how governments across the world are responding to the covid-19 pandemic, Professor Colin Talbot talks to Clay Westcott, president of the International Public Managment Network, about the best way to make an impact with testing, and how the virus is affecting developing countries in unexpected ways

Proxima’s Emily Smith, responsible for talent development, offers insights and practical advice on how to keep young talent developing when work patterns have fundamentally changed.

Hancock wants sector to put domestic need to end lockdown above export drives as day-on-day test numbers drop

PCS calls for all HMRC offices with confirmed or suspected cases of coronavirus to close

Department teams up with individuals, charities, and businesses to break down barriers and increase participation

Boris Johnson had been working to a "stripped-back diary" after contracting Covid-19

Usual limitations relaxed as organisations across the NHS are told to share data in fight against coronavirus

Anne Longfield has spent four decades helping disadvantaged young people in one way or another. As she prepares to step down as children’s commissioner for England, she tells Colin Marrs about progress made and the need for better funding to meet current challenges

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

Boris Johnson has been hospitalised as “precautionary” measure as health secretary accuses people out sunbathing of “putting lives at risk”

"All over government, people are being asked to deliver the totally impossible at unimaginable speed."

Lord Armstrong, cabinet secretary from 1979 to 1987, died on 3 April. His successor Lord Butler pays tribute to a dedicated public servant who served two chancellors and three prime ministers with his 'majestic' powers of analysis and steady discretion, embodying the civil service values of impartiality, objectivity, honesty and integrity

Catherine Calderwood admitted visiting her second home twice, breaching regulations based on her own medical advice

Only the prime minister can address the growing fracture in the relationship between ministers and officials. But will he?

Medicines and healthcare products regulator offers £63k for part-time successor to Michael Rawlins

Watchdog should be doing more to enforce guidance that only essential workers should be travelling to jobs, leaders warn

Tom Shinner is tasked with overseeing cross-departmental response on tackling coronavirus crisis