Leadership

Department’s chief digital information officer tells Civil Service World about transforming working practices and service delivery at the UK tax authority, and why improving diversity starts with leaders who are self-aware

Seven months after launching recruitment campaign, department reveals interim digital chief will continue in role

Speaking at a think-tank event, Lord Macpherson also offered thoughts on the economy to incoming prime minister, while Treasury Select Committee chair said a full leadership contest is needed “so the maddest ideas perhaps don’t make it to asking for official civil service advice”. 

The scale, constraints and pressure of Brexit have very few comparators – and the clock is ticking. Is it any wonder that the complexity of trying to deliver it is keeping civil servants up at night?

Read CSW's list of civil servants honoured

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

In the latest of our series about civil service leavers, we meet former deputy principal private secretary to the prime minister Ed Whiting, who is now director of strategy for the Wellcome Trust

Public health professor has been a chief scientific adviser to government departments for a decade

Former Treasury second perm sec Sharon White to join retailer on far-from-undersold pay package

Civil servants could be either ‘too fresh or too jaded’ to maximise no-deal Brexit preparation for October, highlights think tank

A permanent replacement for outgoing stats chief to be announced in "late summer", UKSA says

In these unprecedented circumstances, we should ditch the convention of confidentiality around civil servants’ advice to ministers – for the good of us all, says the FDA general secretary