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The Kids Company fiasco is just another example of political aspirations trumping objective analysis. Officials must be more willing to challenge ministerial folly, argues the chief executive of the RSA
Senior officials Richard Heaton and Chris Wormald faced a tough time at PAC on Monday over the government's funding of Kids Company. Dan Corry – former head of the Number 10 Policy Unit and now chief executive of New Philanthropy Capital – argues that the charity's good intentions made it easier to avoid questions about effectiveness and decent management
Former Cabinet Office perm sec joins top Department for Education official Chris Wormald at hearing on the charity's collapse – and reveals he considered earlier ministerial direction over grant to the organisation
Report by Business in the Community says Social Value Act has had some impact in improving lot of low-paid staff – but backs tougher approach with agencies
The Equality and Human Rights Commission today launches ‘Is Britain Fairer?’, a comprehensive assessment of Britain’s progress on equality and human rights in the last five years. But, as the EHRC's Verena Brähler writes, a lack of data is preventing public sector bodies from getting the full picture – and could be leaving some groups invisible
Equalities and Human Rights Commission warns that gaps in public data are leaving marginalised groups – including transgender people, gypsies and travellers, and bullied children – under the radar
Report by the National Audit Office spending watchdog finds that charity received £46m of public funding over 15 years
DWP perm sec heaps praise on the department's operations team for finding efficiencies, while acknowledging staff can't "just pedal faster forever"
Analysis: What does the tax credits defeat in the House of Lords mean for the government's legislative programme – and are civil servants ready for the fallout?
Public Accounts Committee calls for greater focus on preventing over- and underpayments
Ministers vow to "sort out the relationship between the Commons and the Lords" after government forced into tax credits rethink
Former cabinet secretary and head of the civil service clashes with Lib Dem chief whip over plans to obstruct tax credit cuts in the House of Lords
DCMS perm sec Sue Owen says failure to meet new diversity objectives will be made "very public"
Work and pensions committee report calls for simplified payment structure and better categorisation of participants
Foreign secretary tells the House of Commons that some cleaners contracted to FCO were made redundant because of estate downsizing – and not because they sent him a letter about their pay
General secretaries of the PCS and FDA unions renew their call for a rethink on civil service pay after cabinet secretary tells CSW officials are "realistic" about the need to cut the deficit
EVEL plans should be "piloted on statutory instruments"; pension freedoms could be putting savers at risk – the latest from the House of Commons select committees
Camila Batmanghelidjh tells MPs there has been an "enormous amount of leaking from government offices" over charity's financial management
Interim chief inspector of probation Paul Wilson tells CSW he is optimistic about the 'Transforming Rehabilitation' scheme – but warns over “more for less” culture
The FDA general secretary says it’s time to speak up for so-called middle managers, who set the tone for the vast majority of civil servants
David Mundell says "top up" payment will herald "new era of devolution"
Latest Office for National Statistics figures document the changing shape of civil service working patterns, pay, and diversity
Civil servants urged to give honest feedback on their working lives
Closing the gender pay gap and improving promotion rates among under-represented groups among first Diversity and Inclusion Objectives for permanent secretaries