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Joint FCO and DIT recruitment campaign offers up to £117,800 a year for new faculty within Diplomatic Academy

"Shadow" body takes shape ahead of next year's move to centralise ownership of government estate and charge departments market-level rent

Latest government commercial standards focus on building in-house clout and ask departments to justify use of interims

David Cameron’s policy guru ruminates on his career over lunch with CSW's Suzannah Brecknell

Appointment will bring number of female permanent secretaries to five, partially reversing recent downturn

Union research shows Grade 6 staff have seen a 16% pay cut in take-home pay since 2011, amid warnings that rises at lower grades will fail to keep pace with the National Living Wage

"We need to go back, we need to re-plan, we need to be realistic, we can't do it all", says civil service chief executive

Work and Pensions Committee says Work Coaches should be supported "to strike the right balance between coaching and conditionality", and warns of varying management quality across the Jobcentre Plus network

"We’re forever doing accountability ex-post," says the former cabinet secretary, as MPs kick off their new inquiry into the future of the civil service

Reaching an agreement on thorny issues like redundancy pay is never easy – but it’s always better than the alternative

Making a success of Brexit does not mean UK should ditch its reputation as a "free, tolerant, outward facing society", says former Foreign Office permanent secretary