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The proportion of women taking new public appointments is “not good enough”, public appointments commissioner Sir David Normington has said.

Helping charities deliver public services can be challenging work, says one professional at the public-voluntary sector interface.

Digital technology offers tremendous opportunities for people of all ages. Being able to buy groceries or access a huge amount of information at the click of a button is fantastic, as is the ability to keep in touch with loved ones via email, video link and social media. However, although the opportunities offered online are immense, there are real challenges for some when it comes to getting digitally connected in the first place.

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The Olympics Secretariat brought together reps from about 20 government bodies, forming a single team to manage the Games. Tim Fish investigates the complex team established to manage a very complex project.

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About 2m households will receive less housing benefit under plans by the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) to save £2.3bn by 2014-15, the National Audit Office (NAO) says today.

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The DCMS will cut its staff, forcing them re-apply for their jobs, accept voluntary redundancy or leave by other mutual agreement.

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Collaboration, collaboration, collaboration. This is the key to ensuring that government and industry deliver megaprojects as planned.

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Spy stories are most commonly exhilarating, unnerving, erotic, and perhaps slightly eccentric. There’ll be a brutish, masculine hero, a fight scene or three, and a car that transforms into a fondue set. Understatement has little place in many movies of the genre, which is a little ironic given that the profession is built around calculation and intrigue.

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...and you’ll see the reform plan undergoing a mutation

It's a Civil Service Live tradition that after we’ve finished on the last day, the whole team heads across the road to Miran Masala for a celebratory curry.

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Despite the rhetoric, government has failed to engage with the charity sector. Just look at the Work Programme, says Stephen Bubb