Leadership

The government’s one year Spending Round has brought very little security to departments. But it does recognise that government much be more strategic

In the latest of our series about civil service leavers, we meet Ella Joseph and Natalie Acton, who together lead the charity Think Ahead, which runs a graduate scheme training people for a career in mental health social work.

Cabinet secretary says he will "resist attempts to draw the civil service" into Brexit debates

Alanna Reid, a policy adviser at the Cabinet Office’s public appointments policy team, reports on an intersectionality event held by the Cabinet Office LGBT+ Network and Gender Equality Group as part of national inclusion week

Corbyn announces policy in constituency of former DWP secretary Iain Duncan Smith

New appointments in the civil service, UK politics, and public affairs, via our colleagues at Dods People

IfG also calls for arm's-length commission or What Works Centre to improve policymaking

As the Department for Education refashions itself as a delivery department, its chief digital officer Emma Stace tells Civil Service World she is determined to make digital ‘just the way we do things round here’

Civil service trade unions slam Johnson’s “cavalier” suspension

Precise scope of new £180k GCDIO role is unclear, as is relationship with head of GDS

The Next Steps programme represented a generation of reform from Thatcher to New Labour, driven by a desire to deliver services via executive agencies. Carole and Colin Talbot explore its chequered history

The government quickly became the UK’s fifth largest airline following the closure of Monarch Airlines. After winning the project delivery excellence award at the 2018 Civil Service Awards, Eirik Pitkethly told Civil Service World earlier this year how the Department for Transport did it