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    Leadership

    The latest Leadership news from Civil Service World
    New Prospect civil service chief targets 'toxic' performance management system
    05 Nov 2015 Leadership
    New Prospect civil service chief targets "toxic" performance management system

    Garry Graham – taking over from Leslie Manasseh at the union for specialists and managers – calls for "cool appraisal" of performance management by ministers


    Army 2020: is the Ministry of Defence's reservist recruitment push back on track?
    05 Nov 2015 Leadership
    Army 2020: is the Ministry of Defence's reservist recruitment push back on track?

    When Army 2020 was announced in 2012, it represented one of the biggest structural reforms to the British Army in decades. A key plank of the scheme – itself part of the larger Future Force 2020 programme – has been to cut the number of regulars from 102,000 to 82,000 by 2018, and to make up the shortfall with reservists. The programme’s recruitment problems have been well publicised in the past, but, in 2015, is it any closer to ‘mission accomplished’? Colin Marrs reports


    HMRC in Public Accounts Committee's firing line again after making 'little or no progress'
    04 Nov 2015 Leadership
    HMRC in Public Accounts Committee's firing line again after making "little or no progress"

    Public Accounts Committee criticises HMRC over customer service, compliance and tackling aggressive tax planning – while HMRC says MPs have "overlooked" its achievements


    Kids Company: Richard Heaton says Cabinet Office gave 'heavyweight' conditions for charity's funding
    02 Nov 2015 Leadership
    Kids Company: Richard Heaton says Cabinet Office gave "heavyweight" conditions for charity's funding

    Former Cabinet Office perm sec joins top Department for Education official Chris Wormald at hearing on the charity's collapse – and reveals he considered earlier ministerial direction over grant to the organisation


    A radical re-think for public sector transformation Sponsored
    02 Nov 2015 Leadership
    A radical re-think for public sector transformation

    With the ‘low-hanging fruit’ exhausted, the public sector must approach new government saving targets with a radically different attitude, says AECOM


    BIS permanent secretary Martin Donnelly seeks ministerial direction over Redcar apprentice plan
    29 Oct 2015 Leadership
    BIS permanent secretary Martin Donnelly seeks ministerial direction over Redcar apprentice plan

    Top official at the business department says plan to subsidise apprenticeship wages could set an "unhelpful precedent" – and seeks the fourth ministerial direction of the parliament


    Spending Review: DWP permanent secretary Robert Devereux 'confident' department can get more for less
    28 Oct 2015 Leadership
    Spending Review: DWP permanent secretary Robert Devereux "confident" department can get more for less

    DWP perm sec heaps praise on the department's operations team for finding efficiencies, while acknowledging staff can't "just pedal faster forever"


    Kids Company collapse: former Cabinet Office perm sec Richard Heaton to appear before MPs next week
    26 Oct 2015 Leadership
    Kids Company collapse: former Cabinet Office perm sec Richard Heaton to appear before MPs next week

    Official who raised value for money concerns over further funding for the charity to face questions from the Public Accounts Committee


    Ex-GDS boss Mike Bracken gets the old team back together at the Co-op
    22 Oct 2015 Leadership
    Ex-GDS boss Mike Bracken gets the old team back together at the Co-op

    Four ex-Government Digital Service staff join their old boss at the Co-op


    'A step back to the Alastair Campbell days' – Committee chair Bernard Jenkin questions fresh guidance for special advisers
    22 Oct 2015 Leadership
    "A step back to the Alastair Campbell days" – Committee chair Bernard Jenkin questions fresh guidance for special advisers

    Exclusive: Committee chair tells CSW inclusion of the word "instructions" gives "new potential for conflict" between Spads and permanent officials – but minister says changes will help departments become more "orderly and organised"


    Ofsted chief Michael Wilshaw: some apprenticeships are a 'waste of public funds'
    22 Oct 2015 Leadership
    Ofsted chief Michael Wilshaw: some apprenticeships are a "waste of public funds"

    Chief inspector says some apprenticeships have been "devalued" by push to make them more widely available


    Unions cool on Jeremy Heywood's civil service pay remarks
    20 Oct 2015 Leadership
    Unions cool on Jeremy Heywood's civil service pay remarks

    General secretaries of the PCS and FDA unions renew their call for a rethink on civil service pay after cabinet secretary tells CSW officials are "realistic" about the need to cut the deficit


    Theresa May backs Cabinet secretary over Heathrow advice
    19 Oct 2015 Leadership
    Theresa May backs Cabinet secretary over Heathrow advice

    Home secretary says it is right that cabinet ministers are "not making comments" on Heathrow's third runway until final government decision


    Jeremy Heywood: Civil servants are “realistic” about the need for pay restraint
    19 Oct 2015 Leadership
    Jeremy Heywood: Civil servants are “realistic” about the need for pay restraint

    Civil servants not facing "doom and gloom" cabinet secretary tells CSW, as he hails "fantastic results” in spite of austerity


    Jeremy Heywood interview: the cabinet secretary and head of the civil service on life at the top of Whitehall
    19 Oct 2015 Leadership
    Jeremy Heywood interview: the cabinet secretary and head of the civil service on life at the top of Whitehall

    Sir Jeremy Heywood has been at the centre of power in Britain for longer than any prime minister. In a wide-ranging interview, Jess Bowie asks the cabinet secretary and head of the civil service about budget cuts, Whitehall pay, the Chilcot Inquiry – and whether he ever feels like throwing it all in


    Kids Company founder lashes out at 'malicious, unprofessional' civil servants after charity's collapse
    15 Oct 2015 Leadership
    Kids Company founder lashes out at "malicious, unprofessional" civil servants after charity's collapse

    Camila Batmanghelidjh tells MPs there has been an "enormous amount of leaking from government offices" over charity's financial management


    Sajid Javid makes case for BIS ahead of the Spending Review – but hints at shrinking estate
    14 Oct 2015 Leadership
    Sajid Javid makes case for BIS ahead of the Spending Review – but hints at shrinking estate

    Business secretary tells MPs that axing Department for Business, Innovation and Skills would be a "step backwards". But he asks: "Do we need 80 locations?"


    'There were not many 'Yes, Minister' experiences' – Former minister Richard Caborn rates the civil service
    14 Oct 2015 Leadership
    "There were not many 'Yes, Minister' experiences" – Former minister Richard Caborn rates the civil service

    Richard Caborn spent a decade as a minister in the last Labour government. Here he shares his insights on working with officials – and explains why, on one occasion, the civil service went to the dogs...


    Lloyds HR boss to become civil service's new chief people officer
    13 Oct 2015 Leadership
    Lloyds HR boss to become civil service's new chief people officer

    Rupert McNeil appointed to new role taking charge of Whitehall's 3,000-strong HR profession


    Part-time civil service jobs replacing full-time posts, new figures show
    09 Oct 2015 Leadership
    Part-time civil service jobs replacing full-time posts, new figures show

    Latest Office for National Statistics figures document the changing shape of civil service working patterns, pay, and diversity


    “The mix of public and private sector experience is invaluable”: Q&A with Peter Hepworth, chief executive of Axelos
    07 Oct 2015 Leadership
    “The mix of public and private sector experience is invaluable”: Q&A with Peter Hepworth, chief executive of Axelos

    AXELOS is a joint venture officially launched in 2014 by Cabinet Office and Capita, to develop, manage and operate qualifications in best practice. Chief executive Peter Hepworth tells us about its work


    Former minister Stephen Hammond: Politicians start by thinking that civil servants want to thwart them – but I soon learnt that wasn't true
    06 Oct 2015 Leadership
    Former minister Stephen Hammond: Politicians start by thinking that civil servants want to thwart them – but I soon learnt that wasn't true

    The official view: former transport minister Stephen Hammond rates the civil service


    The road less travelled: DVLA's Oliver Morley and Iain Patterson on the driver agency's move to bring IT back in-house
    01 Oct 2015 Leadership
    The road less travelled: DVLA's Oliver Morley and Iain Patterson on the driver agency's move to bring IT back in-house

    What’s the opposite of outsourcing? Insourcing, of course – and the DVLA has just given it a go. As the driver agency moves more than 300 IT staff in-house, Matt Foster caught up with chief executive Oliver Morley and outgoing chief technology officer Iain Patterson


    HMRC staff to be briefed on future of offices as taxman aims to shrink estate
    30 Sep 2015 Leadership
    HMRC staff to be briefed on future of offices as taxman aims to shrink estate

    Exclusive: HMRC staff to find out about new network of more specialised regional centres in November as tax authority seeks cut in its number of offices


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