Leadership

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