Government Tax Profession

With nominations for the 2015 Civil Service Awards closing at midnight tonight, cabinet secretary Jeremy Heywood talks to Civil Service World about why he thinks officials should shout louder about the achievements of their colleagues

Government Digital Services chief Mike Bracken – who is leaving the unit in September – to become chief digital officer at the Co-op group

Unionised civil servants to lose right to automatic payroll deduction of fees - known as “check-off” - under plans set out by Cabinet Office minister Matt Hancock

What do ministers really think of their civil servants? We asked Liberal Democrat former justice minister Simon Hughes to appraise the civil service

Charity has reportedly told the government it will close in spite of latest £3m Cabinet Office grant

Cabinet Office says departure of the government's digital chief will prompt rethink of the "best structure for the next phase of digital transformation"

Chancellor asks public sector workers to contribute ideas to cut government costs 

BIS director general Bernadette Kelly to fill Clare Moriarty’s role as rail director general at Department for Transport

Redundancy pay cap unveiled by ministers – but unions warn of impact on workforce management

Cabinet Office announces that Bill Crothers – who oversaw the set-up of the Crown Commercial Service (CCS) – is to leave post, with search for successor already underway

Simon McDonald, UK ambassador to Germany since 2010, to take up post as FCO's most senior official from September

Justice department to run policy fellowships to expand “pool of people” delivering extensive reform programme

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs appoints Emma Howard Boyd to agency

Union – which currently represents the most senior tiers of the civil service – launches new organisation aiming to expand into HEO and SEO grades

Energy secretary Amber Rudd calls time on household energy efficiency scheme

Committee chair warns change to rules ahead of Europe vote has "cast a shadow of doubt over the propriety of the process"

As the purse strings tighten, government departments are seeing the benefits of working together. Tim Gibson reports from a CSW roundtable that explored how best to make collaboration happen

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs appoints deputy as new chief of Drinking Water Inspectorate

Cabinet secretary says proposed purdah rule change is needed to eliminate legal uncertainty for ministers, and says civil service impartiality will not be undermined

Treasury says spending review - set for November 25 - will be a chance to "review the role of government"

Push for £20bn of departmental cuts begins today - with spending review conclusions to be set out on November 25

BIS and DfE urged to take "strategic" action over struggling colleges, while separate report confirms that the Skills Funding Agency's accounts have been qualified

Head of Troubled Families unit to chair review to try and ensure communities not left "left isolated or exposed to extremism"

PCS members in two-day walkout over "oppressive" Universal Credit working conditions, but department says plans in place for "smooth running" of the service