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Tax collection agency beats target by 400,000 users months ahead of self-imposed deadline

Department seeks Office for Disability Issues chief and deputy director for Disability Employment Strategy Directorate

Perm sec makes work services director Susan Park accountable for payments system’s operation across Jobcentres and service centres

Whitehall & Industry Group accolade lauds “exemplary leadership” driven by cross-sector learning

Peter Riddell calls for stronger diversity monitoring rules, as government plans a “stock take” of gender balance across public boards

UK Government Investments – which leads on the management and privatisation of state assets – seeks new director

Former head of the civil service's review for Labour says Treasury must "up its game" on financial expertise; do more to support regional growth; and stop "second guessing" departments

New appointments in the civil service, UK politics, and public affairs, via our colleagues on Dods People

Some staff are still uncertain about joining the GCO, Institute for Government researchers find, though the reforms to improve commercial capability are already making an impact

Education department picks former Number 10 Delivery Unit chief to lead competition-focused new universities regulator

Ex-first civil service commissioner Sir David Normington calls for new guidance on the relationship between civil servants, ministers and special advisers, as he urges the prime minister and cabinet secretary to make a public statement on the need for impartial officials

MPs quiz three departmental chiefs on the role of special advisers – and the impact of briefings against civil servants

Department for Work and Pensions' top official tells MPs that his department "can't sit on an estate that's too big and not do something about it"

Reform think tank calls for rethink on civil service management style as it predicts more than 130,000 administrative-level civil service jobs could be automated in the next ten years

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Civil service’s largest trade union seeks judicial review of terms and conditions overhaul

Total running costs fell by over 7% in 2015-16, Cabinet Office says, as it readies launch of "New Property Model" to charge departments rent on their holdings

FDA general secretary Dave Penman questions why proposals will allow open selection processes to be ditched

Walport will serve as sole accounting officer for the powerful new research funding umbrella body

First Civil Service Commissioner Ian Watmore tells CSW that departments will now be able to bring in senior staff for up to three years and on a maximum salary of £142,000 without having to go through an open recruitment process

Praise for outgoing Rural Payments Agency chief after troubled period, as Defra announces that Paul Caldwell is stepping up to serve as interim CEO

FDA and Prospect argue enhanced salaries but thin pension offer for staff in the new Government Commercial Organisation will deter civil service interest and fail to attract real private sector talent

Caroline Nokes says savings from estate programme will be used to fund recruitment of frontline advisers, but MPs, including Tory backbenchers, raise concerns over access for claimants

New appointments in the civil service, UK politics, and public affairs, via our colleagues on Dods People