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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Union to investigate work-related stress
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Conservatives double down on disputed tax-rise claims
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Party chairman flaunts letter from cabinet secretary as union seeks end to "opposition costings"
Civil service headcount rises to 511,000
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Chancellor's plan to reduce workforce to pre-Covid levels would now mean job cuts of around 86,000
It's time government embraced the human side of productivity
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Stop attacking civil servants, union chief tells politicians
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