Leadership

Mental health first aid can save lives and support better mental wellbeing, but it’s not just a case of training staff and hoping for the best. Kath Cheer and Paul Horsman advise on building structures that help mental health first aiders to support their colleagues

Home secretary tells MPs that number could rise and does not rule out possibility of future restructure of department

NICS decision to approve waste incinerator in absence of executive overturned in court

Department teams up with Samaritans to offer training and support for military and civilians

Amber Rudd’s decision to resign comes as no surprise, but the full picture of accountability for Windrush is much more complex

Oliver Dowden, whose ministerial brief contains responsibility for GDS, has claimed that the recent move of data policy to DCMS ‘should not be seen as a change of direction’

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

NAO report says spad pushed for Steve Lamey to be hired despite civil servants’ objections

An innovative scheme has brought Army officers and MoD civil servants together to improve training and development opportunities. Ahead of his appointment as the UK’s top military officer, General Sir Nick Carter tells Richard Johnstone why this has been a priority

Report calls on senior officials to increase their focus on ethical issues in outsourced contracts and not just pass responsibility ‘down the line’

Following the Windrush scandal that felled home secretary Amber Rudd, former perm sec Sir David Normington and UKBA chief Rob Whiteman tell Tamsin Rutter what it’s like to lead the Home Office

Home Affairs Select Committee told 8,000 cases are being reviewed to see if there have been ‘incorrect removals or detention’

New 'success profiles' will roll out at vanguard departments next month, with all departments expected to have adopted them by early 2019

Politicians work within a hierarchical system where they are arbiters of their own fate – but the hierarchy itself can provide a solution to the harassment problem

Recruitment of trade negotiators leaves department needing to cut overseas trade promotion posts

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

At the first Civil Service World leadership lecture, Defra permanent secretary Clare Moriarty shared the four principles that inform her leadership style. Suzannah Brecknell reports

Despite Whitehall’s global reputation for integrity, it can still learn from a developing country civil service survey

Minister reveals reaction from permanent secretary Melanie Dawes to “storm in a teacup” revelations

Pay deal in Scotland follows “sustained cross-union campaign”, with talks ongoing with Whitehall

Appointment of Janet Young comes ahead of updated Government Estates Strategy

John Manzoni announces launch of “success profiles”, which will allow managers to recruit on past experience as well as competency-based framework

Many internationally lauded ideas for improving how government work have come from the UK – but even when they are copied many in the civil service view central reforming units like the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit to the Government Digital Service as irritants. This should change, says Andrew Greenway