Leadership

As part of our series profiling up-and-coming leaders in the civil service, Marsha Osivwemu, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs’s natural environment portfolio head, tells Beckie Smith how she defied her own expectations to climb the ranks of central government and how she’s pulling up others behind her

Proposed new centre is intended to train future leaders across public services to address shared challenges faced by new bosses and boost innovation and cooperation

Senior manager will develop data sharing tools and practices

Outsourcing firms Capita, Serco and Sopra Steria to produce first three living wills for outsourced services within weeks, says Cabinet Office minister

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

Now court documents have disclosed the backstory to this year’s pay guidance, civil service bosses need to rework their script, says the FDA general secretary

Role of government’s central digital team is evolving but central oversight is still required on policies such as IT disaggregation, minister tells PublicTechnology

Government says bullying and harassment is rare in government, but insists all allegations are taken extremely seriously

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

Department for Transport, Ministry of Justice, Cabinet Office and Department for Work and Pensions teams among those honoured at ceremony

Response to select committee provides an update on how government is responding to liquidation of major outsourcer

FCO honours staff association co-founder who left “an important legacy to LGBT+ diplomats”

Cabinet secretary Sir Mark Sedwill and four prime ministers among those to pay tribute to former civil service chief

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

Review by Sir Alex Allan criticised Hugh Ind for “less than satisfactory performance” before immigration DG was moved out of Home Office

Foreign secretary confirms move to recruit from outside government as part of “the biggest expansion of Britain’s diplomatic network for a generation”

New centre should build a network of people ready to take on top jobs in order to help leaders to drive innovation and improvement across services 

Foreign secretary also reveals plan to hire 1,000 new diplomats to boost Foreign Office capability and boost to the number of language courses

New head of civil service says that making a success of Brexit is a ‘common national endeavour’

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

Treasury guidance encourages departments to offer “unreasonable certainty in timelines, costs and benefits”, IfG report finds

Furious unions say High Court papers reveal officials misled them on 2018-19 rise

Job advert seeks "authoritative" figure to take over after a rocky year for the prisons service

Department for Work and Pensions accused of being 'in denial' over negative impacts of new welfare system