Leadership

Rapid job changes across government costs money and is bad for policy. So why does it persist?

IfG finds staff move on more rapidly in the UK than in other civil services and puts cost of churn at £74m a year

UK Supreme Court rejects request for NI attorney general for clarification on powers, saying they should be addressed in court case.

Twelve months on from the collapse of one of the government’s biggest contractors, Richard Johnstone looks at how the Cabinet Office has responded and reformed its approach to outsourcing

Reports claim the bloc could reopen exit talks if a clear parliamentary consensus emerges in Westminster.

Unions urge members to continue to bring forward complaints and “expect that the Scottish Government will handle their complaint properly”.

Government Legal Department perm sec is one of just six lawyers recognised for non-court work

Interim CDIO Simon McKinnon provides insight into department's agenda for the year ahead

New infrastructure profession leader earn around £190,000, job advert says.

Scottish Government perm sec Leslie Evans apologises "to all involved for the failure in the proper application of this one particular part of the procedure"

Gareth Davies has been selected to replace Sir Amyas Morse, whose term as auditor general is set to end at the end of May

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

Digital agency lays out plans for working with private companies and other departments over the next 18 months

Update on tax and benefit authority’s transformation plan says it is learning the lessons from the early stages of its moves to regional centres

Expanded senior leadership team will help next prison and probation service chief deal with secure-estate crisis.

Proposals could include move to create infrastructure ‘super ministry’ by merging three existing departments

Host of civil servants among more than 1,000 people recognised in honours that mark the start of 2019

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

With the end of 2018 fast approaching, we asked the UK's top civil servants to look back at the year, outline their goals for 2019 – and tell us who they’d choose to turn on their town’s Christmas lights. The links on this list will go live as the articles are published in the run up to 2019.

With the end of 2018 fast approaching, we asked the UK's top civil servants to look back at the year, outline their goals for 2019 – and tell us who they’d choose to turn on their town’s Christmas lights. The links on this list will go live as the articles are published in the run up to 2019.

With the end of 2018 fast approaching, we asked the UK's top civil servants to look back at the year, outline their goals for 2019 – and tell us who they’d choose to turn on their town’s Christmas lights. The links on this list will go live as the articles are published in the run up to 2019.

With the end of 2018 fast approaching, we asked the UK's top civil servants to look back at the year, outline their goals for 2019 – and tell us who they’d choose to turn on their town’s Christmas lights. The links on this list will go live as the articles are published in the run up to 2019.

With the end of 2018 fast approaching, we asked the UK's top civil servants to look back at the year, outline their goals for 2019 – and tell us who they’d choose to turn on their town’s Christmas lights. The links on this list will go live as the articles are published in the run up to 2019.

With the end of 2018 fast approaching, we asked the UK's top civil servants to look back at the year, outline their goals for 2019 – and tell us who would turn on their town’s Christmas lights.