Leadership

Think tank calls for stronger sector-wide systems to support and learn from failing organisations

Former Scottish government and DCLG perm sec says public sector workforce has a "subsidiary and problematic status" in variants of the New Public Management model in vogue with politicians since Margaret Thatcher

Vicky Pryce, former joint head of the Government Economic Service, tells Sam Macrory why, despite the tumultuous times ahead, she would welcome a return to Whitehall…and not only to increase the number of senior women by one

26% of competitions overseen by Whitehall's jobs watchdog saw private sector candidates appointed in 2015-16, new data show

Unions welcome commitment to change controversial “guided distribution” system ahead of pilot results

Director Mark Fisher flags OCS’s connections with new home and says latest government restructuring is “vital”

A lack of planning, a breakdown of cabinet government, the sidelining of civil service advice – the parallels between the Iraq debacle and the aftermath of the Brexit vote are striking, argues Sue Cameron

New research from the Civil Service Commission finds that while BME civil servants represented more than a tenth of all applicants to senior jobs, they made up less than 5% of those chosen for interview

Major speech by the head of the public spending watchdog warns ministers to stop asking the civil service to run on "perpetual overload"

Machinery of government change shifts Office for Civil Society functions to Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Watchdog says "less transactional" process is required and criticises Single Departmental Plans for failing to meet transparency goals

Britain's new prime minister Theresa May has vowed to "make a success" of Britain's historic decision to quit the European Union. But as Sir Nigel Sheinwald – the UK's former permanent representative to the European Union – tells Sam Macrory, that will no easy task

 Former head of the Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure, which reports to MI5, is drafted in to replace Home Office void left by departure of Olly Robbins

"Senior cadre" of specialists will sit outside of the familiar Whitehall hierarchy as part of efforts to give them a more clearly-defined career structure

New report praises cross-government progress since 2010 but questions the value of Single Departmental Plans

Jo Hopkins, chair of the Home Office women’s network and senior sponsor of the Gender Equality Network, welcomes the steps being taken to encourage women from all backgrounds to join the civil service – and says the barriers women face are not just around gender but also race, ethnicity, sexuality, faith, age and background

The civil service "lost self-confidence" as a result of the coalition's reform, the former Defra and Home Office perm sec tells Sam Macrory, as the pair take tea in Sutton House

Advisory Committee on Business Appointments gives the nod to unpaid Birmingham University role for the former HMRC chief

Former Department for Work and Pensions permanent secretary Sir Leigh Lewis calls for rethink of the "crazy" civil service grading structure

Amid all the drama of last week’s arrival of a new government, it was easy to miss the launch of the Civil Service Workforce Plan. But, as Suzannah Brecknell explains, it’s a document that could have major implications for the future of the organisation as it grapples with the big challenges ahead

“The civil service has to be free to make whatever preparations it considers necessary and it should not be constrained by instructions from the government," says Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee chairman Bernard Jenkin

Cameron's decision to reward Spads at the same time as the civil service faces cuts in redundancy pay will stick in the minds of many civil servants, says CSW's deputy editor Matt Foster

With Matt Hancock leaving the government as part of new prime minister Theresa May's frontbench shake-up, CSW's colleagues on Dods People have put together a profile of Ben Gummer, the man who replaces him as minister for the Cabinet Office

New prime minister brings former Home Office Spads Fiona Hill and Nick Timothy back to the fold