Civil Service Reform

As departments work hard to deliver reforms and savings, how can they ensure opportunities for connecting are identified and exploited? That was the question put before participants at a recent Civil Service World round table. Mark Smulian reports 

Wellbeing and protection agency consults on £400m "science hub" to replace Porton and other sites

As fresh Office for National Statistics data shines a light on headcount, salary and diversity within the civil service, CSW's Jim Dunton analyses the key findings

Annual resource bulletin claims fall down to “bedding in” of Levene Reforms

Think-tank raises eyebrow at PM’s capacity to turn her Conservative Party Conference pledges into reality against backdrop of further belt-tightening and Brexit uncertainty

New home for the digital team is 10 minutes from the City of London

Peter Lawson and Samantha Ulyatt to take up post in the coming weeks

Centre, which aims to bring together the UK government's cyber security expertise, will reportedly be based in Victoria

New review of the way the ONS develops its methodology calls for a board-level Innovation Champion

If government were to explore how UK tax policies impact on developing countries, it is entirely possible that it would identify ‘win-win’ situations, says Richard Gledhill of the Independent Commission on Aid Impact

Tax authority defends decision to axe tax credits contract as 150 temporary staff face last day at work

Microsoft's Adrian Alleyne takes a look at how the UK public sector can bridge the digital skills gap

HMRC may need to delay digital tax plans, Treasury committee chair Andrew Tyrie tells new chancellor Philip Hammond

HMRC chief Jon Thompson (pictured) says reorganising four existing lines of business into a more simplified structure will ensure that HMRC is "fit for the future" – as union says there is "nervousness" among some staff over timing of the changes

Public Accounts Committee calls for evidence on reports the multi-million-pound initiative had "no discernible impact” on unemployment, truancy or criminality

Shake-up comes just a month after the surprise appointment of the DWP's Kevin Cunnington (pictured) as director general of the Government Digital Service

Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs committee chairman says opening up civil service recruitment to outsiders is welcome, but a "second-best objective" when organisation should be building its own capability

McKibbin says it has been "an honour and a privilege" to lead the separate Northern Ireland Civil Service since 2011

National Audit Office finds 9,000 data breaches recorded by the 17 biggest government departments in last year – and says Cabinet Office must do more to help departments clamp down on loss and theft

High speed rail project faces "volatile" costs and skills shortages, Public Accounts Committee says, as the group of MPs urge government to finalise decisions on route

“Security-minded folk who can think originally still don’t think working for government is cool," says anonymous Ministry of Justice recruiter

Civil service network seeks to build pan-Whitehall expertise in areas such as payment-by results and agent-based modelling

Ben Gummer says government has a "clear and co-orindated" vision for digital and says he already "commissioned it to do two very large pieces of work that it wasn’t doing before"

Treasury resistance hampered early planning, while over-stretched senior officials failed to spot warning signs that the project to overhaul benefits was failing, according to an in-depth report published by the Institute for Government