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    Major civil service job cuts on the table amid 'budget pressures', Dowden confirms
    27 Jan HR

    Major civil service job cuts on the table amid 'budget pressures', Dowden confirms

    Minister says the "only difference" to scrapped 91,000 cuts plan "is we will be driven by outcomes”
    by Tevye Markson
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    30 Jan HR
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    Latest civil service & public affairs moves – January 30
    30 Jan HR
    Latest civil service & public affairs moves – January 30
    Nick Timothy reviewing Home Office 'structures and systems'
    30 Jan HR
    Nick Timothy reviewing Home Office 'structures and systems'
    MPA’s Pitchford to step down
    04 Jul 2013 HR
    MPA’s Pitchford to step down

    The head of the Major Project Authority (MPA), David Pitchford, today announced that he is stepping down. He will leave in September to return to his home in Australia.


    Civil service severance pay comes under fire
    04 Jul 2013 HR
    Civil service severance pay comes under fire

    The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has criticised the failure of departments to clearly record the use of confidentiality clauses in severance payments to public sector workers.


    FCO braced for criticism on Iraq record-keeping
    01 Jul 2013 HR
    FCO braced for criticism on Iraq record-keeping

    Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) officials believe the department will be criticised by Sir John Chilcot’s inquiry into the Iraq War over the poor state of its record-keeping, according to its 2012-13 departmental improvement plan published last month.


    Normington sets out red lines on reform
    28 Jun 2013 HR
    Normington sets out red lines on reform

    Any reforms to the permanent secretary appointments process should meet three tests, first civil service commissioner Sir David Normington has said today in an article published in CSW.


    Maude backs fixed-tenure plan
    28 Jun 2013 HR
    Maude backs fixed-tenure plan

    Appointing permanent secretaries for four-year periods could increase continuity in the senior civil service, the minister for the Cabinet Office Francis Maude has claimed.


    20 Jun 2013 HR
    Officials wary of secondments

    A third of civil servants fear taking a secondment outside government could damage their career and promotion prospects, according to a survey carried out by CSW and cyber security specialists McAfee.


    NAO: Civil service pay freeze risks talent exodus
    19 Jun 2013 HR
    NAO: Civil service pay freeze risks talent exodus

    The government is risking an “exodus” of talent because of its decision to squeeze civil service pay, pensions and benefits, according to a report by the National Audit Office (NAO) published today.


    Kerslake calls for permanent secretaries to set ‘clear’ staff diversity targets in departments
    18 Jun 2013 HR
    Kerslake calls for permanent secretaries to set ‘clear’ staff diversity targets in departments

    Permanent secretaries should set “clear targets for advancing diversity in their departments”, head of the civil service Sir Bob Kerslake said in a House of Commons lecture on Monday. Part of being a stronger civil service, he said, “will be being more diverse at all levels, fully harnessing the talent available to us”.


    Kerslake sets out ‘unfinished business’ in civil service reform
    13 Jun 2013 HR
    Kerslake sets out ‘unfinished business’ in civil service reform

    The government is likely to implement a further set of civil service reforms soon, the head of the civil service Sir Bob Kerslake has told CSW, as it pursues “unfinished business” that didn’t make it into last year’s Civil Service Reform Plan (CSRP).


    Government has saved £10bn in last financial year, says Cabinet Office
    03 Jun 2013 HR
    Government has saved £10bn in last financial year, says Cabinet Office

    Reforms overseen by the Cabinet Office’s Efficiency and Reform Group (ERG) have generated £10bn savings in the last financial year, ministers have today announced.


    10 May 2013 HR
    Jobseekers like public sector

    Nearly two thirds (64 per cent) of jobseekers registered on totaljobs.com said they would prefer to work for a public sector organisation in the same role as their current or last job.


    Civil service to bust pay cap in recruiting top professionals
    26 Apr 2013 HR
    Civil service to bust pay cap in recruiting top professionals

    The government will actively recruit civil servants and consultants who will be paid more than the prime minister in order to plug talent shortages, despite the current pay and consultancy restrictions, Sir Bob Kerslake, head of the civil service, told the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) last week.


    Skills plan mandatory, says Sir Bob
    26 Apr 2013 HR
    Skills plan mandatory, says Sir Bob

    All government departments will be required to deliver the goals outlined in the civil service Capabilities Plan released last week, Bob Kerslake, head of the civil service, has told CSW.


    28 Mar 2013 HR
    Training report: must try harder

    Civil Service Learning is struggling to reverse a terrible trend.


    Cabinet Office backs down on terms and conditions reform
    27 Mar 2013 HR
    Cabinet Office backs down on terms and conditions reform

    The Cabinet Office has backed down over plans to reform the terms and conditions (T&Cs) of all civil servants, CSW has learned. In a letter sent this month to all civil servants, civil service head Sir Bob Kerslake and Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude said: “The proposed changes will apply to new entrants and, potentially, staff on promotion.”


    Budget 2013: Pay cap continues, progression arrangements to be reformed
    20 Mar 2013 HR
    Budget 2013: Pay cap continues, progression arrangements to be reformed

    The civil service pay cap will continue for an extra year, and the government will also reform automatic pay rises for all civil servants, chancellor George Osborne announced in his budget today.


    DH civil servants to be sent on work placements
    18 Mar 2013 HR
    DH civil servants to be sent on work placements

    Civil servants across the Department of Health (DH) will be sent on regular work placements at hospitals, care homes and charities, in a bid to give them frontline experience of the NHS.


    Arrivals, moves and departures, March 2013
    15 Mar 2013 HR
    Arrivals, moves and departures, March 2013

    Hilary Reynolds will step down as programme director for Universal Credit, after it emerged that new UC chief executive David Pitchford will take on her duties. She will move to another role in the department.


    Gus O’Donnell defends civil servants on R4
    14 Mar 2013 HR
    Gus O’Donnell defends civil servants on R4

    Former cabinet secretary Lord O’Donnell used the second part of his Radio 4 documentary on Tuesday, In Defence of Bureaucracy, to call for the retention of an impartial civil service, and to argue that the “occasionally intemperate tone” taken by Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude has “not helped” the “unusually strained” relationship between ministers and civil servants.


    PCS kicks off new strikes
    14 Mar 2013 HR
    PCS kicks off new strikes

    The PCS union has called a three-month programme of industrial action, starting with a one-day strike on Budget day: 20 March.


    Experts back Butler in call to appoint historical advisers
    13 Mar 2013 HR
    Experts back Butler in call to appoint historical advisers

    Whitehall experts have backed former cabinet secretary Lord Butler in calling for all departments to appoint historical advisers, CSW can reveal.


    It’s not enough to learn from history
    13 Mar 2013 HR
    It’s not enough to learn from history

    Ministers & officials must also put those lessons into practice.


    Cross-civil service competency framework published
    05 Mar 2013 HR
    Cross-civil service competency framework published

    The Cabinet Office has published a new competency framework which will apply to all civil servants from 1 April. The framework lists a set of attributes and behaviours which all 420,000 civil servants should aspire to, and breaks down how these could be demonstrated at every grade across the service.


    First independently-run shared service centre opens
    05 Mar 2013 HR
    First independently-run shared service centre opens

    The government has signed an agreement with private-sector partner arvato to manage an independently-run shared service centre, which will run back-office transactions to government departments. The move is intended to create savings of up to £600m a year over seven years.


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