Civil Service Awards 2025 shortlist announced
22 Oct Operational Delivery

Civil Service Awards 2025 shortlist announced

Home Office is most-shortlisted department, with seven nominations at this year's 20th anniversary ceremony
by Tevye Markson
DWP creates new safeguarding team following MPs concerns
24 Nov Operational Delivery
DWP creates new safeguarding team following MPs concerns
‘Whitehall’s best kept secret’: MPs urge government to unlock public-facing civil servants’ potential
23 Oct Operational Delivery
‘Whitehall’s best kept secret’: MPs urge government to unlock public-facing civil servants’ potential
DWP staff indicate support for industrial action over 'unacceptable' pay
15 Oct Operational Delivery
DWP staff indicate support for industrial action over 'unacceptable' pay
Civil Service Awards 2022 winners revealed
09 Dec 2022 Operational Delivery
Civil Service Awards 2022 winners revealed
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FCDO to step up aid scrutiny as minister admits UK 'not a development superpower'
08 Dec 2022 Operational Delivery
FCDO to step up aid scrutiny as minister admits UK 'not a development superpower'
Development minister also planning restructure which could include new second perm sec
Civil service strikes: Border Force to strike at six airports over Christmas
08 Dec 2022 Operational Delivery
Civil service strikes: Border Force to strike at six airports over Christmas
A thousand passport-checking officials are set to go on strike for eight days, PCS has announced
From the streets, to prison, to working in the civil service
06 Dec 2022 Operational Delivery
From the streets, to prison, to working in the civil service
An official shares her remarkable and harrowing life story, and explains how she now uses her experiences to help improve government policy
DWP staff to strike over festive period
05 Dec 2022 Operational Delivery
DWP staff to strike over festive period
Strike over pay and conditions comes after reports of DWP officials using foodbanks amid cost-of-living crisis
Will the Autumn Statement’s short-term focus sideline longer-term outcomes for public services?
01 Dec 2022 Operational Delivery
Will the Autumn Statement’s short-term focus sideline longer-term outcomes for public services?
Public services may well have passed their tipping point, and short-term firefighting is clearly not the way back
Outcome delivery plans suspended after job-cuts saga and Autumn Statement
01 Dec 2022 Operational Delivery
Outcome delivery plans suspended after job-cuts saga and Autumn Statement
Disruption halted publication but Sunak will not scrap ODPs in the long run, minister confirms
We should go further and faster in redesigning human-centred public services
30 Nov 2022 Operational Delivery
We should go further and faster in redesigning human-centred public services
The UK scores well on a new international ranking of people-focused public services. But amid ever-growing pressures, we cannot afford to sit on our hands
NAO sounds alarm as funding shortfalls threaten departmental shared-services drive
30 Nov 2022 Operational Delivery
NAO sounds alarm as funding shortfalls threaten departmental shared-services drive
Cabinet Office “doesn’t know how much has been spent or what benefits to expect”, watchdog warns
Civil service strikes: driving examiners to walk out as first wave of dates confirmed
29 Nov 2022 Operational Delivery
Civil service strikes: driving examiners to walk out as first wave of dates confirmed
DVSA and Rural Payments Agency to stage rolling regional strikes from 13 December, PCS confirms
Home Office accused of 'creating preventable' health risk after asylum centre diphtheria outbreak
29 Nov 2022 Operational Delivery
Home Office accused of 'creating preventable' health risk after asylum centre diphtheria outbreak
After suspected cases among asylum seekers dispersed from Manston, expert says situation "should have been prevented through joint working"
Remote working 'wasn’t in DVLA's DNA': boss admits pandemic shortcomings
28 Nov 2022 Operational Delivery
Remote working 'wasn’t in DVLA's DNA': boss admits pandemic shortcomings
Huge Swansea presence left agency exposed to local infection rates, Julie Lennard tells MPs