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The latest news by profession from inside the Civil Service World

Analysis All

11 Mar Analysis

Buried Treasury? What changes to the chancellor’s special advisers mean for officials

Plans to merge the Treasury and No.10 teams of political advisers have led to questions about where power lies in the centre of government. Richard Johnstone seeks answers

19 Dec 2019 Analysis

Queen's Speech: Brexit and NHS among priorities as justice royal commission is announced

30-bill legislative programme includes measures to develop new immigration rules and post-Brexit trade plans

Commercial All

25 Sep Commercial

Deliver social value to win contracts, government tells suppliers

Commercial officials to get training in new rules to take account of the wider impact of firms bidding for work from departments

22 Sep Commercial

The public and private sectors can learn from each other

Stefano Jefferson, a senior consultant at Proxima, makes the case for a two-way learning process

Digital, Data & Technology All

28 Sep Digital, Data & Technology

DCMS names telecoms diversification task force after Huawei ban

A selection of telecoms executives and academics will help deliver a strategy to be published later this year

24 Sep Digital, Data & Technology

GOV.UK to trial personalised accounts

Citizens will be offered the chance to create an online login to government portal

Operational Delivery All

25 Sep Economics

Civil Service Fast Stream kicks off recruitment round for over 800 posts

Selection of available jobs includes 244 roles for generalist officials

21 Sep Operational Delivery

Argenti: Helping vulnerable people stay independent during the COVID-19 outbreak

During the pandemic, technology that helps elderly and vulnerable people live independently has been even more valuable. PA Consulting explains their role

Fraud, Error Debt & Grants All

08 Sep Coronavirus

HMRC targets furlough fraudsters after up to £3.5bn wrongly paid out via scheme

Perm sec Jim Harra tells MPs the scheme's fraud and error rate "could be between 5% and 10%" of £35.4bn bill

25 Aug Fraud, Error Debt & Grants

Crooks hijack Government Legal Department's phone number

GLD issues warning about enquiry number showing up on calls from fraudsters

HR All

23 Sep Civil Service Reform

Cabinet Office commissions pay benchmarking study to give 'assurance and transparency' for top roles

Review will provide 2020 data to support senior and delegated grade recruitment for 47 departments

22 Sep Economy

BEIS permanent secretary seeking £130k successor for their old job

Senior roles in business department key to ‘leading Britain’s recovery from coronavirus’, candidates told

Legal All

11 Sep Brexit

‘Notwithstanding the breach of international law’: government lawyers told internal market bill within civil service rules

Message from Jonathan Jones – who has resigned over the plans – relays Simon Case’s view to officials

11 Sep Communications

Rycroft reveals revised Twitter guidelines after Home Office’s ‘activist lawyers’ post

Perm sec says additional layers of assurance have been introduced following the tweet, which he previously said ‘should not have been used on an official government channel’

Project Delivery All

21 Aug Project Delivery

Shapps launches ‘Acceleration Unit’ to speed up transport infrastructure projects

Move comes as Crossrail bosses reveal line will cost an extra £450m and not open until 2022

08 Jul Coronavirus

Government ‘messed up royally’ over PPE as MPs demand plan for potential second Covid-19 spike

PAC also calls for plan on how the NHS will function after the coronavirus crisis, including how services will operate under social-distancing rules

Property & Estates All

08 Sep Civil Service Reform

Dave Penman: the government’s return-to-office drive is yet another insult to civil servants

The introduction of targets for officials to get back into departments is gesture politics, says the FDA general secretary, and is likely to fail

11 Aug Operational Delivery

Government’s Edinburgh hub completed

The new office building will eventually house as many as 3,000 civil servants

Communications All

21 Sep Civil Service Reform

Government accused of breaking civil service rules on Harding appointment

Appointing Dido Harding to head up the National Institute for Health Protection is a breach of the civil service code, Labour peers claim

21 Aug Communications

Unions call for jobs guarantee in huge government comms reorganisation

PCS says centralisation drive could put thousands of staff at risk and give No.10 "unprecedented control"

Finance All

04 Sep Finance

Looking forward: The investment that could save the public sector time, money and trouble

SAP Concur details the case for better spend management in public sector organisations

29 Jul Civil Service Reform

'New radicals': Barclay reveals what Treasury will get and give in Spending Review

Chief secretary reveals a civil servant found £1.3bn in savings as he sets out plans for better use of data

Science and Engineering All

03 Sep Science and Engineering

BEIS job market review to inform pay framework for civil service scientists

Review of pay for specialist scientists and engineers outside government will help build business case for future GSE profession reward framework

05 Aug Digital, Data & Technology

Home Office seeks leader for Policy and Innovation Lab

Department recruits for individual to apply design principles to solve government challenges

Policy All

14 Sep Digital, Data & Technology

National Data Strategy promises to ‘tackle government culture of risk aversion’

Document sets out ‘transforming government’s use of data’ as one of five missions

31 Jul Communications

Government comms criticised as new northern lockdown rules brought in at short notice

Matt Hancock says data from the test and trace system shows case number increase is a result of households meeting each other

Energy & Environment All

07 Jul Coronavirus

Rishi Sunak promises ‘eco-friendly economic recovery’ with £3bn injection for green jobs

Environmental groups say plans fall short of what was needed to create jobs in response to the coronavirus outbreak and tackle the climate crisis.

09 Apr Energy & Environment

Sedwill salutes ‘unparalleled’ efforts of civil servants

Cabinet secretary also encourages departmental staff to make time to relax – safely – over the Easter weekend