Leadership

Civil servants need to go "back to basics" on spending and record keeping, watchdog says

Penelope Endersby becomes agency’s first female boss seven months after Rob Varley quits

'Mismatches in volumes and available staffing will impair our ability to clear work,' Neil Couling told MPs

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

New hiring and promotion framework based on questionable premise says former MoD, DETR and DWP chief

The newest profession in the Government Communication Service focuses on improving the way government talks directly to key stakeholders. Jonathan Owen speaks to members of the new External Affairs Forum to find out more

Oliver Dowden says that it is part of the job of officials to raise problems with policy plans

Cabinet Office says opening of new office for more than 6,000 civil servants a key milestone in efforts to rationalise government property portfolio

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

Tom Smith, managing director of the ONS Data Science Campus, tells CSW's sister title PublicTechnology how and why he wants to 'move the needle' for the use of data across the public sector

Jon Thompson's revelation that the police had investigated two threats after he gave evidence on Brexit custom costs “represents an escalation that cannot be tolerated”

MPs slam “serious administrative failings” in communicating nominations for public appointments

Thompson says that it is incumbent on civil servants to tell truth to power after speaking of personal impact of comments on Brexit

Five of the service’s seven existing commercial partners will assume responsibility for the product

Unions criticises home secretary Sajid Javid’s lack of engagement after members had rejected pay plan

International development secretary Penny Mordaunt calls for ‘national conversation’ to promote private investment in aid as part of reset of DfID’s work

Government reversed plan to disclose civil service pay figure to unions before announcement amid fear of leaks, court hears

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

Norman Strauss recently argued in CSW that there was a need to create a new ministry for the opposition to help change the civil service and share its expertise more widely across society. In this response, Catherine Haddon, a senior fellow and resident historian at the Institute for Government, sets out why she thinks such a proposal is flawed

The Northern Ireland Renewable Heat Incentive Inquiry shows what can happen when these values are undermined, writes the FDA chief

Ian Ackerley left the world of commercial banking to join NS&I as its chief executive last year. He speaks to Jonathan Owen about the need to turn Britain from being a nation of spenders to a nation of savers

HMRC has been at the forefront of the government’s smarter working agenda, and is attempting to change the culture across one of government’s biggest organisations. There are lessons for other departments in the progress so far, says Luke Heselwood

Senior shadow cabinet figure Andrew Gwynne revealed his concerns about central government to deliver Labour’s policy platform

Former cabinet secretary Lord Andrew Turnbull shares his reflections, and a lunch, with Suzannah Brecknell