Shared services: Cabinet Office explains 'outsourcing v insourcing' decisions
09 Jun HR

Shared services: Cabinet Office explains 'outsourcing v insourcing' decisions

Cabinet Office DG Jerome Glass says outsourcing DWP's Synergy cluster "offered best value for money", while full insourcing would have required more than 1,600 extra staff
by Tevye Markson
The ministerial-civil service relations reset hasn’t gone to plan – but Labour still has time left to get it right
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The ministerial-civil service relations reset hasn’t gone to plan – but Labour still has time left to get it right
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Blair pushes potential for AI to reduce public sector workforce costs
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Starmer signals new approach on ethics and civil service
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Home secretary orders audit of Rwanda spending
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Yvette Cooper also launches Border Security Command, a key cog in Labour's plan to tackle illegal crossings
Sunak thanks civil servants and apologises to nation in resignation speech
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Former PM pledges to stand down as Conservative leader … but "not immediately"
DWP protest: Department 'sleepwalking into major incident' union warns
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PCS urges Labour to bring security jobs back in-house as hundreds of G4S security guards walk out
Security guards and cleaners at DESNZ and DSIT consider strike action over ‘chronic low pay’
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Union says it will "keenly watch" how Labour's commitment to "biggest wave of insourcing in a generation" unfolds should it win the election
Former Cabinet Office, Treasury and DWP civil servants among today's election candidates
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Former Cabinet Office, Treasury and DWP civil servants among today's election candidates
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CDDO seeks workforce strategy head to 'turbocharge' digital recruitment
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Appointee will “lead and deliver the development of a strategic workforce plan” for digital and data profession
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Simon Case 'to step down in January'
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