Leadership

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

Newly-appointed first civil service commissioner Ian Watmore on why the Civil Service Code matters – and how you can put your questions to his team

Civil service staff feedback underscores capacity issues and extent of job losses and pay squeeze, main trade bodies warn

Mark Leftly reports on growing support among parliament's influential select committees to let MPs "blackball" ministers' choices for key public sector jobs

"I’m confident that they will get there. But no-one should be under illusions – this is an enormous job", says former cabinet secretary

To win at the dice game Perudo, players need to calculate risk and read their opponents. No surprise, then, that Gus O’Donnell is a master. Britain’s former top civil servant talks Blair, Brown and life after Brexit with The House magazine's Sam Macrory

This year's People Survey provides a snapshot of morale at Whitehall's newest organisations: the Department for Exiting the European Union, the Department for International Trade, and the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. Matt Foster crunches the numbers

Staff responses signal across-the-board plunge on all key measures, and make department Whitehall’s lowest employee-engagement performer

Former Foreign Office permanent secretary warns Brexit committee over morale concerns if outside experts are paid more than civil servants delivering UK's exit from the EU

Figures from mid-point of the applications window, highlighted by the Social Mobility Commission, suggest applications from working class candidates have risen sharply

Next week's set piece fiscal statement will not include extra resources to cope with Brexit, according to a memo leaked to The Times

Public Administration Committee says vote to leave the EU means it is "all the more important that the civil service is clear about its mission and role"