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Civil Service Awards Media Pack 2011
...of service to the country. To maintain the government’s world-class status...t this best practice is communicated across government. The Civil Service Awards ha...nd improvement across the entire breadth of central government. By taking examples of excel...
169 days ago
Civil Service World Media Pack 2011
...to help improve communications between senior civil servants in all government departments and agencies,...ublication that facilitates cross-departmental communication within central government, it meets the need for a nati...
258 days ago
...t | Contact us Forestry Commission Scotland, Central Scotland Conservancy, Branchi...ty-based services, women- and men-only groups and older adult groups. Government-level approval has been requi...
182 days ago
Partners and Exhibitors - Vertex
Vertex, the UK’s largest provider of customer management services, is perfectly placed to tackle the challenges facing central government organisations. Our expertise and experience,...
225 days ago
Fraud Error and Debt: Tackling Financial Loss in Government
...February 2012, organised by HM Government, supported by Cabinet Offi...here. Plenaries Context: the Government’s efficiency and reform...vidual: minimising waste across GovernmentMark Moorman, Director for Cus...Client Relationship Director - Central Government, SAS Prevention: int...
18 hours ago
Civil Service World Upcoming Event
...-to-attend seminar on delivering policy in the new world of government communications. Since the Central Office of Information prepares t...op provides an opportunity for senior officials from across government to learn more about the chang...
yesterday
...audience member complained of central government’s reluctance to devo...om an ongoing review of local government finance. At a later discus...ty between power and money at central and local [levels]; we will neve...rces from somewhere, and with central and local government both feeling the pinch, that...
139 days ago
Squaring the circle – managing change in turbulent times
Even though the aspiration might be to move central government to a more strategic, lean model, the reality is that more management capacity and attention (‘bandwidth’ as it is...
469 days ago
IfG: ‘Improve central guidance on preparing for new governments’
The civil service coped well with the transition to a coalition government but there should be more co-o...report from the Institute for Government (IfG).The report also explore...siness planning.The centre of government should take a greater role in...
82 days ago
Government issues £250m tender in search for main provider of new civil service training regime
The government intends to outsource all civil service training, including both profess...Clark, chief executive of the National School of Government (NS...s to be abolished – told CSW that although the central training procurement agency Civi...
92 days ago
...ld. If the battle to control government debt and foster economic growth has been the central narrative of the coalition’s f...iginal offer is marginal. The central areas of concern remain untouche...aude argues strongly that the government’s offer is a good one for m...
78 days ago
...incumbent Sir Gus O’Donnell, government spokespeople – up to and...– argue that, given coalition government and civil service reform, the...policies, and coordinating the government’s responses to a fast-chang...stronger corporate identity and central management ever since he arrived...
82 days ago
Interview: Bob Kerslake and Jeremy Heywood
...y it is right and proper that government look at all the issues that i..., a euphemism for the kind of centralisation of controls and systems t...public sector organisations; central departments will then have to re...re a test of how well central government can understand the issues at...
7 days ago
...a designed to ensure that all central government finance directors have profes...doesn’t always occur within central government. Including finance officers i...ss the public service between central and other parts of the public se...n out yet.” Risky businessGovernment is keen that civil servants t...
29 days ago
A plan of action for plans of action
...chemes collapse. However, the government wants to give doomed schemes...king about contracts than the government side.” For example, some co...Eurofighter is a big one: the government is buying 160 planes, in its...further because there was no central governance for the project; inst...
6 days ago
...gathered at the Institute for Government (IfG) in central London. These top officials c...ctor of strategy for UK civil government at HP, summarises the message...l recently, led by a minority government and much of the focus was on...l Wettengell, director of the Central Division of the Federal Chancell...
48 days ago
...e user needs should always be central to adopting new technologies: ...to minimise interactions with government, he said, and lacks “an und...uch cheaper to have “large, centralised computing resources, and dis...d like to interact with their government in the future.The technology...
6 days ago
Round table: Meeting the 25 per cent carbon reduction targets
...14 per cent on average across central government in the year to May 2011.En...ment in its new contracts.The Government Procurement Service, which is overseeing centralised procurement in a number of k...se in energy prices would see central government expenditure on electr...
28 days ago
Special report: How efficient is your department?
...as an indicator of the total government office estate, as some of the...ich have to pay for expensive central London properties, and those wit...cost centres. It includes the centralised budgets that procurement man...m Error, a recent report into government ICT, says that while “it’...
90 days ago
Special report: SCS recruitment
...l service; and those entering central government from the wider public, pri...ome SCS recruits from outside government – even retaining those...und 2005-’06, where the government decided to go out into the ma...mately to a narrower role for central government, suggesting that in f...
114 days ago
Kenexa Government Solutions is the only company in the HR marketplace that has the tools, services a...ltiply success for the public sector. We impact all levels of government—from local to central—by identifying the right i...
127 days ago
Business intelligence on the key developments in central government, brought to you by the team behind Civil Service World. It is a new service from Dods Government. It will be free for the next...
180 days ago
...y to celebrate success and to thank the individuals and teams, across government, who continue to push the...Training Centre in Prague Hugh McNish, Forestry Commission Scotland, Central Scotland Conservancy, Branching...
180 days ago
Joined-up views on joined-up services
The Total Place pilots have proved a winner across the political divide, leading to widespread calls for more local autonomy. Ben Willis discovers that, whoever wins the election, Whitehall will have to take the concept seriously Total Place, the government’s latest drive to improve loca...
Tags: bob neill, julia goldsworthy, government, politics and public administration, Central Government, civil service, london politics
628 days ago
Recent reports have praised Total Place and participatory budgeting. Richard Parsons calls for Whitehall to start connecting the two ideas Over recent weeks, evaluation reports have been published on two government programmes that point the way to a reinvention of the way the British...
Tags: government, politics and public administration, Central Government, civil service, london politics, policy making, public administration
628 days ago
Comment on "A Map for the Future?"
The Office of Government Commerce (OGC) has been using mapping as as p...ts.asp) which allows OGC to help government departments t...rmation about all the properties central government bodies own, use, control, occ...n managing surplus grades across government, retirement and other success...716 days ago
Comment on "Social Networking in Central Government"
...our own Departments but across Government? First of all we need a pl...n excellent example where even Central Government is getting in on the act. The...d-heres-one-i-made-earlier/ ) Central government · ...hear’ what their Central Government Department is ‘tweeting...837 days ago
