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Government Communications Service sets out role of departments in supporting government priorities, including getting greatest possible public support for EU exit deal

Position paper outlines solutions to ensure 'frictionless' trade but critics say it's too 'light on detail'

Damian Green said that governments will look to identifying policy areas that could be released to Holyrood following Brexit

Chris Skidmore commits to place all new public bodies created following Brexit outside London

New research by the Public Chairs’ Forum (PCF), Association of Chief Executives (ACE) and Institute for Government (IfG) highlights the need for greater consistency, strategic collaboration, transparency, and better cross-government working to improve partnerships between arm’s-length bodies (ALBs) and government departments. Here’s what can be done.

Civil servants fear uncertainty and, these days, a lack of direction is a real challenge for government, says Andrew Greenway

New group will help “put in place the foundations” for recovery, says communities secretary

NAO says the department’s efforts to tackle online fraud are ‘not proportionate to the threat’

Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party has new-found influence in Westminster now its 10 MPs look likely to prop up the Conservative minority government. Here are some its key policies of interest to the public sector.

Martin Stanley recalls his own shift into the world of watchdogs and introduces his new ‘Understanding Regulation’ website

Changes to be judged on how funding can promote sustainability of services and reduce worklessness

Widespread Whitehall view that GDS is struggling with an expanded role

In making bids for more powers, many councils have moved outside their comfort zone to craft plans that improve local services. Can the same be said of central government?

MPs highlight that workforce planning in Whitehall only gives “high-level view” of staffing requirements

Implementing Theresa May’s flagship plan must become a Brexit priority, says report

Government will be in listening mode once new city region mayors are in place, says growth unit boss

After a tumultuous first six months as director general of the Government Digital Service, Kevin Cunnington has finally got the long-awaited Transformation Strategy off his desk and is looking forward to an office move. Rebecca Hill meets him.

Public Chairs Forum, Association of Chief Executives and the Institute for Government will track progress on the Cabinet Office's bid to improve relationships between departments and ALBs

Lesley Ann Nash, the Cabinet Office's director for public bodies reform, explains how the government's new code is aiming to shift relationships between departments and arm’s-length bodies away from compliance and control towards a proportionate, risk-based partnership model

Civil service chief John Manzoni says good relationships between departments and their agencies are built on "trust, clarity of accountability" and a "shared understanding of purpose and outcomes"

Whitehall & Industry Group accolade lauds “exemplary leadership” driven by cross-sector learning

Later this year, ownership of much of the government estate will be passed to a new Government Property Agency – with departments charged market-level rent for their offices in a bid to drive down costs. Mark Leftly listens in as the GPA's top team explains why the new approach to the government's estate is about more than just saving money

The chief executive of the Crown Commercial Service has told the Public Accounts Committee that he would rather “take time to build a model that endures” than rush to increase the volume of services bought through and by his centralised procurement team

Worrying projections about our “unsustainable” public finances mean the rhetoric around decentralisation must now become a reality