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...sures to support business and workers early in the year. As an econom...ted by the Cabinet Office and Department of Work and Pensions staff working in Jobcentr...year. Twenty-two government departments have been reviewed, an...n end, civil servants in many departments – particularly the D...
783 days ago
Permanent secretary, Department for Work and Pensions What are you most proud of achieving in 200...ible answer is the way in which the entire department, and Jobcentre Plus in...eople and resource from other parts of the department to support Jobcentre Plus....
783 days ago
Agenda for Employee Engagement and Change Management
...high performance don’t work anymore. It is time for a new..., it needs to restructure the department and the ways in which it works. It must deliver better serv...iness Partner, Department for Work and Pensions and Jackie Bannister, Department for Work and Pensions ...
223 days ago
...evelop capabilities and align departmental systems by hiring big syste...ors rather than creating frameworks that favour SME contracting. This...pectrum of health, education, works and pensions, local government, and many mor...pectrum of health, education, works and pensions, local government, and ma...
226 days ago
Fraud Error and Debt: Tackling Financial Loss in Government
...ngham, Debt Management Contact Centre Performance Director, Department for Work and PensionsAlex Bowes, DWP Client Dir...nbsp;Graham Cassidy, Debt Transformation Programme Manager, Department for Work and PensionsGuy Barrington, Sales & Ma...
5 hours ago
Which department serves the best Fish’N’Chips? Foreign and Commonwealth Office
...not review the quality of all departmental canteens? Most departments serve fish’n’chi...rently in first plaice is the Department for Work and Pensions with 21 points, while the...t; the most common mistake by departmental canteens is to make sodde...
34 days ago
Change across the civil service
...vernment, civil servants have worked tirelessly to find those savings...cessary changes to the way we work. We have already achieved a huge am...as non-executive directors on departmental boards, which will he...to be a civil servant today, working amongst some of the most deter...
166 days ago
Fraud strategy makes spend-recovery audits compulsory
All departments, agencies and non-departmental bodies will have to commiss...h high potential rewards.” Departments will employ companies on a ...approval. By March 2015, all departments that administer benefits, gr.... Further, the Department for Work and Pensions and HMRC will create a Si...
6 hours ago
Obituary: Dame Lesley Ann Strathie
...c services.Lesley started her working life in 1972 in the then Department of Health and Social Se...ding many from people who’d worked with her over 20 years befo...r hugely. In over 20 years of working together Lesley came, for...gh Lewis is a former work and pensions permanent secretary.
12 days ago
...t a comprehensive plan of cross-departmental reform in Whitehall, the go...ith, commercial director of the work and pensions department, also identified a lack...Projects Association, said that departmental governance structures...it because you think it’s not working as it is to deliver a successf...
68 days ago
...dicated that benefits for pensioners will be maintained and the work incentives of the Universal Credit...its be included in the Universal Credit and administered by the Department for Work and Pensions. Therefore from 2013 many peo...
104 days ago
Interview: Bob Kerslake and Jeremy Heywood
...cuts bite great chunks out of departmental budgets, they are being ask...a coalition government, while working to tackle economic, environmenta...e expect the civil service to work in a way that’s as close to moder...good test of cross-government working,” Kerslake comments.Asked to...
7 days ago
...ervation over the years, from working in Whitehall, is that party poli...m in 1996, soon found herself working for Tony Blair’s deputy prime...hall – most recently at the Department of Health, where Benita has b...bank, she says, but in the IT department. In general, though, she’...
12 days ago
A plan of action for plans of action
...nd money from the rest of the department. As public money becomes ever...stic cost projections is that departments will have to juggle ongoing...he commercial director of the Department for Work and Pensions, David Smith, is a member...to manage its contractors’ work, ensuring that any delays in one...
6 days ago
...y – and also for people who work in the public sector, because the m...more, losing lessHMRC and the Department for Work and Pensions, the departments responsible for collec...tentially including social networking sites, also worry civil libert...
61 days ago
...logies will change the way we work, and which are just a flash in the...h changed the way we live and work – such as ATM cash machines, mobi...s in which it can improve its work. But how will those requirements ch...communications manager at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and Directgov franc...
6 days ago
Round table: In search of perfection
...o re-shaping the way in which departments buy goods and services.Infor...errors more easily; spot when departments are paying twice for similar...ulty in collating data across departments or using historical data wit...ather than introducing within departments an entirely new system to co...
180 days ago
Special report: How efficient is your department?
...ummaries (QDS) – updates to departmental business plans, providing t...pear to enable comparisons of departmental spending in key common area...to consider the efficiency of departments’ HR functions, the amount...3 per cent in HR costs in the Department of Health from one quarter to...
90 days ago
Special report: SCS recruitment
...ps: recruits from within that department; those brought in from other...– explains that “departments are reducing their senior nu...ort (DfT), the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and the Department for Co...for specific appointments; or departments have found ways around the f...
115 days ago
...member profiles for the main departments of state. This will help you gain an idea of their working practices and style. Find the department ...top Department for Work and PensionsMinister's profileSpecial...
168 days ago
Department for Work and Pensions Lean way
Welcome The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) embarked on its Lean journey in 2...xpertise in continuously improving the way we work and adding value to our custo...customer service improved people skills the departments efficiency challenge ...
28 days ago
DWP Put Best Feet Forward On Walking Challenge
Giant steps are what you take when participate in the DWP Walking Challenge, it seems. With all the steps now logged from the 171 teams taking part, we can now reveal that they took a giant leap for DWP – they reached the Moon! All told, nearly 500 million steps were logged during th...
Tags: civil service benevolent fund, charity, fundraising, department for work and pensions, physical challenge
105 days ago
The Civil Service Benevolent Fund Is Over The Moon With DWP Walk
Giant steps are what you take when participate in the DWP Walking Challenge, it seems. With all the steps now logged from the 171 teams taking part, we can now reveal that they took a giant leap for DWP – they reached the Moon! All told, nearly 500 million steps were logged during th...
Tags: civil service benevolent fund, charity, fundraising, department for work and pensions, physical challenge
105 days ago
