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...tments **2001 will also be important for public bodies as in April Sir David Normington takes up his appoi...uestions commonly asked by aspiring candidates. The keynote speaker is David Bell, Permanent Secretary at the d...
354 days ago
...tments **2001 will also be important for public bodies as in April Sir David Normington takes up his appoi...uestions commonly asked by aspiring candidates. The keynote speaker is David Bell, Permanent Secretary at the d...
354 days ago
Agenda for Employee Engagement and Change Management
...through employee engagement With David MacLeod and Nita Clarke, the...tion Time on Civil Service values David Normington, the newly appoint...happen Introduction by Sir David Bell, Permanent Secretary for Depar...nels, and also how they fail. Sir David Normington will lead a panel...
218 days ago
Permanent Secretary, Department for Education What are you most proud of achieving during 2011?I am really pleased at the success of the government’s educatio...
50 days ago
...tments **2001 will also be important for public bodies as in April Sir David Normington takes up his appoi...uestions commonly asked by aspiring candidates. The keynote speaker is David Bell, Permanent Secretary at the d...
352 days ago
A different class: the fast stream
...r fast stream status hidden from her team because she was so ashamed - and the head of the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF), David Bell, confirmed that the fast stre...
941 days ago
New civil service chiefs write on reform challenges of 2012
...nternational development chief Mark Lowcock both call for renewed pride in, and respect for, the civil service, and departing education perm sec David Bell urges the civil service’s n...
44 days ago
Concerns over splitting of cabinet secretary role as Sir Gus retires
...he HHCS not to be in charge of the Cabinet Office, which is co-ordinating civil service reform.Outgoing education department permanent secretary David Bell, however, played down concern...
99 days ago
Editorial:Resurrecting the duty to challenge
Serve ministers well by telling them when they’re wrong. Sir David Bell says that political pressures do not...between officials and ministers. More departments are learning to, as Bell puts it, “roll the pitch”...
114 days ago
...results, permanent secretary David Bell tells Matt Ross – despite th...quiet corridors of Whitehall, David Bell would stand out for his fizzi...to move with such speed: Sir David may not be your classic Whit...ystems will be abandoned, but Bell doesn’t pretend that in fut...
113 days ago
Planes, trains and meals on wheels
...ave to be used rarely and [be] strictly interpreted by a court”, says David Hansom, a partner at Veale Wa...ical, approach they take to the rules.” Nick Maltby, of Bircham Dyson Bell, believes that the government...
135 days ago
Special report: SCS recruitment
...cut since the spending review last year. Sir David Normington, the first civil s...ke, the DCLG’s permanent secretary. Sir David Bell, permanent secretary of the De...uits do come with a hefty price tag, however. David Normington’s review of...
110 days ago
The coalition special advisers
...policy advisers are Peter Campbell and Sean Worth. Campbell spent years at the CRD, where...chief of staff to Menzies Campbell while he was leader of the Lib...rom 2006-7, Waring worked for David Laws MP as an adviser on wor...in 2007 to join lobbying firm Bell Pottinger Public Affairs, he...
176 days ago
Permanent Secretaries' Roundup
... Sir Bob Kerslake Sir David Bell Ursula Bren... Dame Gill Morgan David Pitchford S...
50 days ago
Permanent Secretary, Department for Education What are you most proud of achieving during 2011?I am really pleased at the success of the government’s education reform programme. Through the hard work and dedication of staff in the Department for Education (DfE), we have helped to create ...
Tags: david bell, department for education
50 days ago
Permanent secretary, Department for Education In a year of political and economic change, what was your highlight of 2010? I was proud to be British and proud to be a civil servant! Our ability to come through a post-election period of uncertainty in such a calm and measured way is what ...
Tags: David Bell, department for education and skills, DFE
414 days ago
