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Select committees are set to broaden the debate, argues Professor Patrick Dunleavy of the London School of Economics.
Sharing sterling would threaten both Scotland and the rump UK
We need to rethink education – and the DfE’s response to constructive critics, says David Bell
The prime minister should be able to pick permanent secretaries from a list of good candidates, argues Guy Lodge of the IPPR
Even small constitutional changes can have big implications
Starved of investment, the civil service is losing key skills.
No-one likes to be stereotyped, but using employee engagement surveys to categorise and understand employees makes sense, argues Jonny Gifford of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD).
Among the departments, the DfT has seen most churn at the top – but since 2010, half have lost as many director-generals as they employ. As Jon Stone reports, turnover among perm secs and junior ministers is even faster
Looking for half-full glasses, Dave Penman finds more half-empty ones. Is the government, ever-keen to cut and criticise, drunk on power?
With the cuts in decline, the focus is on rebuilding capability
Ministers must promise to share the rewards of recovery
Civil service reform doesn’t address the big questions, says Patrick Diamond: we need a Northcote-Trevelyan Act for the 21st century
If UK grant funders shared information, says Dawn Austwick, their money could go a lot further: let’s move open data into new spaces
We need democratic oversight of ministerial policy advisers.
Government must create a proper structure to support and empower its increasingly professional finance staff, says Rob Whiteman
As youth unemployment rises to almost a million, Graeme Cooke of the IPPR sets out measures that could help reverse this trend
The FoIA’s critics would trade accountability for convenience
The UK economy is stumbling back into growth, but still remains over three per cent smaller than it was before the global financial crisis in 2008. Real wages have declined in this period – the worse squeeze in living standards for a generation.
Challenge must be encouraged, no matter what the project.
New Zealand's civil service believes that their central government needs one single web portal. Their digital team write about how they’ve taken inspiration from gov.uk.
Britain is not ready to cope with its ageing society – and government should say more on the subject, argues Lord Geoffrey Filkin, chairman of the Lords Committee on Public Service and Demographic Change.
Number 10’s briefing against Sir Bob Kerslake was motivated by a desire to speed up civil service reform – but in the short term, at least, publicly undermining the civil service chief is likely to achieve just the opposite.