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    Manzoni to quit second role with drinks company next year
    31 Oct 2014 Leadership
    Manzoni to quit second role with drinks company next year

    Civil service CEO John Manzoni will now have to quit his second job next year following pressure from 70 leading medical professionals and charities over the potential conflict the role could cause.


    Looking across: Björn Conway
    30 Oct 2014 Leadership
    Looking across: Björn Conway

    Björn Conway, EY Government and Public Sector Leader, gives his outside perspective of the civil service


    Manzoni waives his £100,000 drinks company salary
    29 Oct 2014 Leadership
    Manzoni waives his £100,000 drinks company salary

    John Manzoni, the new CEO of the civil service, has waived his £100,000 salary from his second job with a major drinks company, after the Cabinet Office said he could continue in the role “in his own time and on an unpaid basis”.



     


    Skills Funding Agency appoints new permanent chief executive
    29 Oct 2014 Leadership
    Skills Funding Agency appoints new permanent chief executive

    Peter Lauener has today been announced as the new permanent chief executive of the Skills Funding Agency (SFA).


    Build your skills: Andre Spicer
    28 Oct 2014 Leadership
    Build your skills: Andre Spicer

    It's easier to sidestep 'wicked problems' than to fix them - but stepping sidewalks brings us no closer to our goals


    Rory Stewart calls for greater local expertise in national strategy and across FCO
    27 Oct 2014 Leadership
    Rory Stewart calls for greater local expertise in national strategy and across FCO

    The Defence Select Committee chair has criticised the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) prioritising management skills over local expertise in its overseas staff, and expressed scepticism over the UK’s approach to developing strategy. 


    Serwotka re-elected for fourth term as PCS general secretary
    24 Oct 2014 Leadership
    Serwotka re-elected for fourth term as PCS general secretary

    Mark Serwotka was re-elected for a fourth term as general secretary of the Public and Commercial Services union on 23 October. 


    Looking across: Atam Verdi
    24 Oct 2014 Leadership
    Looking across: Atam Verdi

    Atam Verdi, Director at the property regeneration consultancy, gives and outside perspective of the civil service


    Interview: Nick Clegg
    22 Oct 2014 Leadership
    Interview: Nick Clegg

    As the election looms, CSW puts six questions to deputy prime minister and Liberal Democrat party leader Nick Clegg


    Private sector chiefs commend perm secs
    17 Oct 2014 Leadership
    Private sector chiefs commend perm secs

    Top flight chief executives have sung the praises of both the management approach and the professionalism of permanent secretaries in a Whitehall and Industry Group (WIG) released yesterday.


    Perm secs given November deadline for action on diversity
    17 Oct 2014 Leadership
    Perm secs given November deadline for action on diversity

    Permanent secretaries have less than a month to deliver work to boost diversity in their departments, the government’s new diversity champion Sir Simon Fraser revealed at this year’s Civil Service Diversity & Equality Awards.


    Prime minister to pick perm secs from shortlist
    15 Oct 2014 Leadership
    Prime minister to pick perm secs from shortlist

    The prime minister will be able to pick permanent secretaries out of a candidate shortlist from December this year, under new rules announced today – with the first competition to be held under the new process that to replace Sir Bob Kerslake in February as permanent secretary of the Department for Communities and Local Government.


    Sharon White says civil service slipping on equality for women
    13 Oct 2014 Leadership
    Sharon White says civil service slipping on equality for women

    The civil service has not gone far enough in appointing women to senior positions, the Treasury’s second permanent secretary Sharon White told a conference audience last month.


    Winners of diversity awards revealed
    10 Oct 2014 Leadership
    Winners of diversity awards revealed

    This year’s civil service Diversity and Equality Award winners have been named at a ceremony in Petty France today.


    Beyond the comfort zone: Mark Gibson, chief executive of the Whitehall and Industry Group
    06 Oct 2014 Leadership
    Beyond the comfort zone: Mark Gibson, chief executive of the Whitehall and Industry Group

    In our monthly feature focussing on people who have crossed organisational and sectoral boundaries, Mark Gibson talks about his move from the then-Department for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform (BERR) to the Whitehall and Industry Group


    Manzoni made civil service CE as ‘Two Years On’ report maps out future reforms
    02 Oct 2014 Leadership
    Manzoni made civil service CE as ‘Two Years On’ report maps out future reforms

    John Manzoni, the chief executive of the Major Projects Authority, has been named as the new chief executive of the civil service.


    Lord Hennessy meets... Lord Richards
    01 Oct 2014 Leadership
    Lord Hennessy meets... Lord Richards

    Journalist and historian Peter Hennessy meets former chief of the defence staff General Sir David Richards to discuss Whitehall’s internal wars, and the need for truly strategic thinking in Whitehall


    Editorial: The experts tell us to listen carefully, move slowly
    30 Sep 2014 Leadership
    Editorial: The experts tell us to listen carefully, move slowly

    By chance, two service delivery heavyweights have shared a single message. Ministers and officials alike should listen up


    Interview: Lord Victor Adebowale
    29 Sep 2014 Leadership
    Interview: Lord Victor Adebowale

    Victor Adebowale may be a peer of the realm, but his ideas for public service reform – built on 30 years’ experience in housing and social care – challenge established thinking. Winnie Agbonlahor meets him


    Passport Office to be brought back into Home Office
    26 Sep 2014 Leadership
    Passport Office to be brought back into Home Office

    HM Passport Office will be abolished and its operations absorbed by the Home Office from 1 October, it has been announced today, and the organisation’s chief executive Paul Pugh will be replaced by a newly-appointed director general.


    Kerslake sets out ‘unfinished business’ in civil service reform
    26 Sep 2014 Leadership
    Kerslake sets out ‘unfinished business’ in civil service reform

    There is “unfinished business” in civil service reform, former head of the civil service Sir Bob Kerslake said yesterday – including devolving powers away from Whitehall, and breaking down departmental structures. 


    Opinion: Dave Penman, FDA
    25 Sep 2014 Leadership
    Opinion: Dave Penman, FDA

    Civil servants achieve so much for the public good, argues Dave Penman, but rarely get the praise they deserve: their leaders should sing their praises more loudly – even if it gets the critics irate


    Interview: Helen Edwards
    23 Sep 2014 Leadership
    Interview: Helen Edwards

    Helen Edwards left a career in frontline social work and charity management for a job on Whitehall; now she's the DCLG's deputy permanent secretary. She tells Matt Ross about pursuing change in service delivery, councils, and her own department. Photo by Mark Weeks


    Kerslake: Delay in diversity plan ‘biggest regret’
    22 Sep 2014 Leadership
    Kerslake: Delay in diversity plan ‘biggest regret’

    Former head of the civil service Sir Bob Kerslake has said his biggest regret is that the government didn’t publish a civil service diversity plan more quickly.


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