Hi all,
Do any of you have any friends, family or acquaintances working at the public sector frontline? Are they interested in airing their experiences in a newspaper that has the eye and ear of the senior civil service?
If you've been reading our 'frontline' page in Civil Service World you'll know it's developed into a important regular feature. But we want more contributors - doctors, teachers, social workers, train drivers, binmen or anyone else who does a... Read full post

It was the sick bloke wot won it.
Team Liverpool - Mohammad Pandor, Alison Ridley, Keri Jones and Liz Goldsack - have been successful in the innaugural Civil Service Challenge, stealing the title away from hungry counterparts in the Plymouth, London and Nottingham groups.
Sir Gus O'Donnell said the winners, and indeed all 16 competitors, made him feel proud to lead the civil service. And one of his fellow judges, Mr Efficiency Sir Peter Gershon, said the best people in the private sector... Read full post

What does the National School of Government actually do? The question was asked by NSG supremo Rod Clark, who hosted a session on the school this morning at Civil Service Live, of which it is a co-organiser. Clark said the Sunningdale-based school had been looking again at its priorities, and was pleased that both ministers and civil service leaders recently pledged full support to the ongoing existence of the NSG as a government-owned training body. This may have been especially reassuring... Read full post

It's reassuring that the policymakers charged with making sure the world avoids ecological catastrophe are getting advice from scientists like Bob Watson. Watson is Defra's chief scientific advisor, before that did the same job at the World Bank was also chair of the International Panel on Climate Change. But his slightly chaotic, mad-scientist style of presentation here at Civil Service Live belied his formidable academic credentials. In a whirlwind session, he moved from predictions on... Read full post