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    Leadership

    The latest Leadership news from Civil Service World
    Appointments reform ruled out
    16 Apr 2014 Leadership
    Appointments reform ruled out

    The Civil Service Commission won’t reform the appointment process for permanent secretaries without the backing of the Public Administration Select Committee (PASC), first civil service commissioner Sir David Normington has told CSW.


    Mind the Gap Sponsored
    03 Apr 2014 Leadership
    Mind the Gap

    Given the rhetoric surrounding the shift to the modern workplace and the importance of centring technology around the users rather than the producers, why has progress stagnated?


    BYOD: The critical balancing act Sponsored
    03 Apr 2014 Leadership
    BYOD: The critical balancing act

    How can organisations allow employees to use their own devices to access corporate information securely, within parameters set by management?


    Keeping UK cities’ heads above water Sponsored
    03 Apr 2014 Leadership
    Keeping UK cities’ heads above water

    AECOM’s Associate Director of Sustainability, Michael Henderson, considers the environmental and economic benefits of effective water management in urban areas.


    Interview: Sir Paul Jenkins
    20 Mar 2014 Leadership
    Interview: Sir Paul Jenkins

    Sir Paul Jenkins has spent his time as Treasury solicitor creating a shared legal service, and tackling discrimination. As this very unusual barrister retires, he gives Matt Ross his final, divergent verdicts on the progress in both fields


    Interview: Margaret Hodge
    10 Feb 2014 Leadership
    Interview: Margaret Hodge

    The Public Accounts Committee chair sits right at the heart of Westminster, with the power to examine public spending across government. But as Margaret Hodge tells Matt Ross, she’s always felt like an outsider


    Hodge: DWP ‘kidding people’ over UC project
    10 Feb 2014 Leadership
    Hodge: DWP ‘kidding people’ over UC project

    Universal Credit has been stymied by confused accountability and a “very, very poor set of decisions,” Public Accounts Committee chair Margaret Hodge has told CSW.


    Opinion: Guy Lodge, IPPR
    03 Feb 2014 Leadership
    Opinion: Guy Lodge, IPPR

    The prime minister should be able to pick permanent secretaries from a list of good candidates, argues Guy Lodge of the IPPR


    Editorial: Resist the politicians’ power-grab
    03 Feb 2014 Leadership
    Editorial: Resist the politicians’ power-grab

    Even small constitutional changes can have big implications


    Government's chief statistician to retire
    29 Jan 2014 Leadership
    Government's chief statistician to retire

    Jil Matheson, the national statistician, head of the Government Statistical Service chief executive of the UK Statistics Authority, is to retire this summer, it has recently been announced.


    Interview: Bernard Jenkin
    29 Jan 2014 Leadership
    Interview: Bernard Jenkin

    The Public Administration Select Committee wants the creation of an independent commission into the civil service. The PM has so far given a firm ‘no’ – but its chair, Bernard Jenkin, won’t let up. Joshua Chambers meets him


    Interview: Sue Owen
    27 Jan 2014 Leadership
    Interview: Sue Owen

    Sue Owen might be enjoying more evenings out as the new permanent secretary at DCMS, but her days are spent demonstrating and improving the value of culture, media and sport to the UK. Suzannah Brecknell meets her


    Perm Sec Round-Up: Mark Lowcock, 2013
    16 Dec 2013 Leadership
    Perm Sec Round-Up: Mark Lowcock, 2013

    Mark Lowcock

    Permanent Secretary of the Department for International Development


    Lord Butler criticises churn among perm secs
    02 Dec 2013 Leadership
    Lord Butler criticises churn among perm secs

    Permanent secretaries’ tenure is too short and the high turnover is sometimes to blame when “things go wrong”, according to former cabinet secretary Lord Butler, who also warned that civil servants “aren’t encouraged to speak truth to power”.


    Poll: 75% of former Cabinet ministers want inquiry into civil service
    02 Dec 2013 Leadership
    Poll: 75% of former Cabinet ministers want inquiry into civil service

    Three-quarters of former secretaries of state surveyed by Civil Service World support the calls for a commission to consider how the civil service should develop and reform.


    PM calls on civil service to ‘tell it like it is’ at Civil Service Awards
    28 Nov 2013 Leadership
    PM calls on civil service to ‘tell it like it is’ at Civil Service Awards

    Prime minister David Cameron has called on civil servants to “talk truth to power and tell it like it is” in order to improve policy.


    Arrivals, moves and departures, Nov 2013
    28 Nov 2013 Leadership
    Arrivals, moves and departures, Nov 2013

    David Thomas (pictured), commerical director at HMRC and a crown representative, will leave government in mid-December. He resigned his post in September.


    Heywood speaks up for Devereux
    27 Nov 2013 Leadership
    Heywood speaks up for Devereux

    Cabinet secretary Sir Jeremy Heywood has intervened in a bid to end the political briefings against work and pensions permanent secretary Robert Devereux.


    Open book clauses not used
    27 Nov 2013 Leadership
    Open book clauses not used

    The civil service must “significantly” improve its ability to understand company accounts if it is to make effective use of open-book contracts, according to government chief operating officer Stephen Kelly and chief procurement officer Bill Crothers.


    Interview: Mark Sedwill, Home Office
    21 Nov 2013 Leadership
    Interview: Mark Sedwill, Home Office

    The new Home Office permanent secretary, Mark Sedwill, arrived in Marsham Street soon after having worked in Afghanistan. He tells Joshua Chambers how he’s using his experience to turn the embattled department around.


    New DG role for DECC in restructuring
    19 Nov 2013 Leadership
    New DG role for DECC in restructuring

    The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has created a new director general-level role, in an effort to rebalance the department’s workload.


    31 Oct 2013 Leadership
    Treasury appoints new second permanent secretary

    Sharon White, currently director general for public services, has been appointed as the second permanent secretary at HM Treasury.


    DfT lacks project management skills, says PAC chair
    29 Oct 2013 Leadership
    DfT lacks project management skills, says PAC chair

    There is a "shortage of project management skills" in the Department for Transport (DfT), according to Margaret Hodge, chair of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC).


    23 Oct 2013 Leadership
    Authors of draft code of practice for government ‘tsars’ defend plan against fears over inflexibility

    A group of King’s College academics have launched a draft code of practice for the appointment and management of government ‘tsars’, arguing that the lack of an existing framework leads to failed appointments and wasted public funds.


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