Culture

Plan for 2018-19 to focus on four themes, including creating a strong, new relationship with Europe after Brexit

Amber Rudd forced to admit use of targets after she and top official yesterday denied their existence  

Former immigration chief insists "checks and balances" would prevent wrongful deportations

Committee berates government’s “lack of commitment to citizenship policies” and short-lived initiatives

As the Equality and Human Rights Commission marks its tenth anniversary, it is running a series of events to ask: how fair is Britain? Six months on from Theresa May’s Race Disparity Audit, Daniel Bond reports on the challenge of transforming this evidence into real action on racial inequality. Photography by Paul Heartfield

Helen MacNamara returns to the Cabinet Office to enforce rules on propriety and governance

ONS outlines work streams to expand measurements of loneliness and wellbeing inequality

Health department propping up the figures on ethnic diversity at senior levels, IfG analysis finds

Report calls for Ministry of Housing to reclaim powers to support rural communities

Department forced to check 300,000 claims after tribunal ruling on flaws in employment and support allowance

The UK Statistics Authority has updated its framework to ensure all public servants behave with integrity when handling data

United Nations accepts proposal for ONS-led team to build evidence on shared challenges related to ageing

New figures reveal Department for Work and Pensions is among Whitehall employers with highest proportion of apprentices at 3.1% of workforce

Departments expected to work up plans for promoting global consensus on cyberbullying and hate crime

Department reveals gradual decline in use of casual workers since 2011

Perm sec Matthew Rycroft announces conclusion of internal review into allegations against department staff

Is truth scarcer than it used to be? Claire Foster-Gilbert, director of the Westminster Abbey Institute, sits down with Geoffrey Lyons to discuss the idea of truth, the Abbey’s role in politics, and the Institute’s latest lecture series

Nearly five million employees are work some hours for free, with almost 40% unpaid work done by public servants

Culture champion Arts Council England has fared better than some organisations dependent on public funds in recent years. But its chief executive is conscious of the need for the body to remain in tune with the nation as a whole, not just a metropolitan elite. Colin Marrs reports

The centenary of women’s suffrage is a good opportunity to start making sure government is held to account to properly measure the impact of decisions on woman

Challenging gender discrimination must be part of a wider drive to build a culture that supports all types of diversity

As government gears up to celebrate the centenary of voting rights for women, Tamsin Rutter catches up with gender champion Melanie Dawes and women’s network co-founder Keela Shackell-Smith on their priorities for 2018

New unit set up in department to tackle safeguarding across the aid sector