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Civil service mainstay Prospect warns new work and pensions secretary not to raise retirement bar
MPs and centre users back call to save one of 78 threatened offices
Dan Corry, former special adviser and head of the charity think tank NPC, argues that the public and charity sectors must learn from each other as they face joint challenges of capacity, governance and transformation
Local Government Association asks all parties to commit to further devo rollout in their election manifestos
Civil servant who led Troubled Families programme to leave Whitehall to take up roles in voluntary sector and academia
Public Accounts Committee report on outsourced tax credits debacle says agency lacked the commercial capacity for the payment-by-results deal
Changes to be judged on how funding can promote sustainability of services and reduce worklessness
Health Select Committee calls for stronger measures to tax unhealthy food and drink, plus clearer warnings on future action
Cridland Review dubs guaranteed 2.5% annual rise unaffordable and calls for acceleration of retirement age to 68 sooner than scheduled
Leigh Lewis says the time has come to consider more effective ways to set spending levels
Select committee seeks feedback on payment delays, registration errors, and possible tweaks
Statements and press releases gave misleading picture of reduction in homelessness, the UK Statistics Authority finds, because press and policy teams failed to consult with statisticians before publication
Public Accounts Committee says department still does not fully understand impact of benefit sanctions, and warns their use could have knock-on effects for other areas of government
Perm sec makes work services director Susan Park accountable for payments system’s operation across Jobcentres and service centres
Union cries foul over “unprecedented” redundancies made with 24 hours’ notice at rights watchdog
Former minister tells watchdog MPs Whitehall has made "bad mistakes" in outsourcing IT projects
Department for Work and Pensions' top official tells MPs that his department "can't sit on an estate that's too big and not do something about it"
HMRC confirms it will look again at tax credits withdrawn by the US contractor
Whitehall insider-turned-academic Richard Mottram says EU referendum and its aftermath underscores the uphill struggle of speaking truth to power
Estates strategy proposes opening five new large service centres and 50 shared-site operations
One in four workers in the UK has financial worries. In this article, Elaine Jefferys, Money Services Manager at The Charity for Civil Servants, explains what the organisation is doing to help
Think tank deputy director Julian McCrae says dealing with impact of the ageing society will be a dominant domestic task for Whitehall over the next 15 years
Reducing sickness absence is a vital task for leaders, and it must start with some difficult conversations if real progress is to be made
Worrying projections about our “unsustainable” public finances mean the rhetoric around decentralisation must now become a reality