Leadership

Mayank Prakash, who was named CIO of the year in 2016, set to return to the private sector

Labour calls on business secretary Greg Clark to take action

Shadow chancellor plans new Whitehall unit to develop plans for public and community ownership

Account intended to make top leadership more visible and make civil servants feel #proud

Less than half of the civil servants who replied to the survey felt appropriate action was taken when bullying had taken place

The civil service has many skills but finds itself resistant to change. It needs to disseminate itself more widely across society – and a new ministry for the opposition could do it, according to Margaret Thatcher’s former policy advisor Norman Strauss

Richard Heaton announces Michael Spurr departure at “the right time to ask a new chief executive to take on this important role”

“We already understand what happened at HMP Birmingham,” the justice secretary has said.

All this week CSW will profile a host of major government projects from each of the four categories from the Government Major Projects Portfolio to see how the current slate of projects are preforming – and where lessons can be learnt

Government’s project delivery chief on how departments and the Treasury are working to improve approval of major schemes ahead of 2019 review

The civil service values two types of knowledge, writes former senior civil servant Andrew Greenway, and understanding of policy is trumped by the skill of navigating Whitehall itself