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Public Accounts Committee tells ministry to up its game on keeping track of schools operators at risk of going broke

Watchdog MPs doubt department’s ability to meet £1.7bn savings target from new regulations

Cabinet Office gives unions six weeks to table compo package to rival its own update proposals

Think tank says chancellor will trumpet lower annual borrowing but report a much bigger deficit than predicted two years ago

Union’s national executive calls for pan-Whitehall dialogue on ending pay cap with threat of national ballot on the strike action

Civil service unions urge politicians to give workers same rights to fair pay that they enjoy

Workers at non-departmental public body could walk out over office closure and other changes

Appointments watchdog publishes advice letter to Ameetpal Gill over contract with Oliver Letwin’s cross-party Brexit initiative

Programme manager bags runner up slot in literary springboard the Costa Short Story Award

Shadow body overseeing hubs programme and New Property Model expected to go live last year

Fewer than 10% of Community Rehabilitation Companies qualify for offender-reduction rewards

BEIS programme manager makes literary springboard’s ‘final three’ 

Just five local authorities bid for cash from government infrastructure scheme designed to accelerate delivery of on-street power points

Department launches three-year plan to boost digital, data and technology offer

Harlow Council planners approve blueprint for science campus

 Public Accounts Committee criticises departments' “business as usual” assumption for 2019 and berates pace of pan-Whitehall Border Planning Group 

But peer review finds HR qualms and suggests the organisation needs louder voice on air quality

Labour minister-turned-Greater Manchester mayor berates anachronistic policymaking processes

Bureaucrat-turned-academic Gary Sturgess argues Whitehall needs to up its game on public service contracting and commissioning. Jim Dunton reports

Former Post Office and MoJ man Neil Hayward replaces Peter Gregory at DfT firm

Michael Lockwood will become first director general of the Independent Office for Police Conduct

Protest set to cover Sheffield branch’s final three weeks

Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science granted planning permission for state-of-the art Lowestoft base

Cabinet secretary Jeremy Heywood announces individuals and teams winning 2017 awards

PCS launches nationwide ballot on sentiment and readiness for industrial action

Institute for Government argues that European Court of Justice cannot provide a neutral voice

Agency says small firms make up two-thirds of businesses on £330m framework to supply Government Hubs Programme

Select committee chair seeks evidence base for “unfair” Staircase Tax

Cabinet Office to boost payments made under 2016 scheme after High Court challenge, but Manzoni moots replacement

Backlash over advert for Tees Valley-focused role that “can require occasional trips” up north

Day of action marks response to "12% real terms fall in wages” over past decade, says union

Pharmaceutical company executive Steve Oldfield set to take up posting in October

Watchdog says too few impact assessments on new regulations are fit for purpose

ACOBA's annual report shows 27% hike in requests from former Crown servants to take up non-Whitehall roles

Annual survey says staff numbers rose by 0.3% in year to April and points to narrowing gender pay gap

Conservative peer and former education secretary launches House of Lords tirade against “megaspads” and calls for substantial headcount reduction