Operational Delivery

PCS and Prospect members at the Natural Environment Research Council take half-day action over 1% cap and progression pay move

PM highlights achievements of Whitehall's digital team as he argues government has "moral imperative" to "streamline" public services

New watchdog the Single Source Regulations Office seeks to overhaul MoD deals with single-source contractors

Care Quality Commission chief David Behan tells NHS Innovation Expo that public reassurance vital after data on patients attending sexual health treatment centre accidentally shared

Outgoing digital chief Mike Bracken cites "stresses and strains" of the job – but says Government as a Platform plans still being assessed

What’s life like at the sharp end of public services? A modern foreign languages teacher tells Sarah Aston about the pros and cons of changes to the schools system

Public and Commercial Services union makes "strong representations" to tax authority about "timescale and process" of 90-day talks, which department says may result in compulsory redundancies

Ofqual’s chief regulator announces plans to step down in February 2016

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Department for Work and Pensions accounts qualified again as NAO says fraud and error in the benefits system "remains unacceptably high"

PAC chair Meg Hillier accuses the DCLG perm sec of "sophistry" as Melanie Dawes seeks to explain communities department's handling of scheme to free up public land for new homes

Minister for the Cabinet Office calls for "more collaboration on policy design" in spirit of the online encyclopedia

Waheed Nazir – director of planning and regeneration and chief planning officer at Birmingham City Council​ – gives an outside perspective of the civil service, and says Whitehall is improving the way it works with local partners

What do David Cameron’s changes at the centre tell us about his government? Jill Rutter from the Institute for Government analyses the new team around the PM

Civil service must avoid culture of “delegating up” and take ownership of policy delivery, says civil service chief John Manzoni

"Robespierre terror" of Public Accounts Committee under former chair Margaret Hodge will be copied by more MPs, former health secretary warns officials

Sir David Normington eyes candidates with private sector experience as body overseeing civil service appointments seeks new commissioners

Report by the National Audit Office says centre of government must do more to ensure departments make better use of information about outsourced public services, including standardising data and improving Whitehall skills