Leadership

Whitehall commentators and insiders at odds over expertise and timescales for “conscious uncoupling” with Europe

New chief executive and permanent secretary tells MPs that technology issues and new performance management regime are at the root of organisation’s problems

Hilary Spencer lined up as new head of the Government Equalities Office

 Balancing careers in the European Commission and corporate world with a young family have given Ian William Vollbracht and his wife valuable insights into having it all - some of the time 

Independent recruitment regulator says campaign group’s league table was factually wrong and misdirected

Acting permanent secretary poised to take on £340,000-a-year City of London role

CSW readers react to Labour's perm sec quotas plan – and the Cabinet Office's proposal to find out more about the backgrounds of Fast Stream applicants

New £160,000-a-year "Continuous Improvement Director" asked to track progress against commercial improvement plans departments have agreed with the Cabinet Office

Whitehall's HR directors asked to collect data on public interest concerns for the first time – with the majority of officials choosing to come forward anonymously

Select committees do valuable work, but the relentless grandstanding by some of their members damages public services and does nothing to hold government to account

Microsoft makes the case for local councils to move to the cloud