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Implementing Effective ICT: Bill McCluggage on government reform
...informed on and influence the opportunities and challenges of reform. Bill McCluggage - Deputy Government CIO, ICT Strategy and Policy, Cabinet OfficeCraig Eblett -...
50 days ago
Implementing Effective ICT: Public Service Network
...informed on and influence the opportunities and challenges of reform. Bill McCluggage - Deputy Government CIO, ICT Strategy and Policy, Cabinet OfficeCraig Eblett -...
50 days ago
...ivery to disabled customers is accessible, that our people receive appropriate training on etiquette for interacting with disabled people and that policy, product and service decision...
178 days ago
.... It was delivered not least by a genuine and open engagement with corporate partners. The team were faced with a real challenge to implement new policy; address new legal instructio...
178 days ago
Policy Focus: infrastructure and project management
The coalition has put investment in infrastructure at the heart of its growth plans, and is expecting civil servants to ensure that crucial infrastructure projects are...
2 days ago
New civil service leaders set out their priorities for reform
...binet secretary and head of the civil service, Jeremy Heywood and Bob Kerslake, are taking on their new jobs at a time of unprecedented financial, policy and political challenges. In...
3 days ago
...can they walk the line between central support, and central management which would undermine the point of the localising reform? If you are in a policy team wrestling with this issu...
134 days ago
...nterest in evaluation (Magenta book, no really, I am vaguely interested). Bit bemused as it seems to be a commercial operation, hey ho, government policy oh. Worth saying that I...
278 days ago
Departing Benita urges focus on diversity and robust advice
...she argued, “because the more representative you are in terms of your policy advice, the better chance you...e ended up with a listening exercise unprecedented in terms of stopping policy at the legislative stage. Cou...
10 hours ago
Infrastructure boss calls for learning culture
...decisions, and improving future contracts as a result. Rather than waiting until full overhauls are required, he said, “a better way of taking a policy forward is always to look at...
yesterday
...year that "it’s very much in [ministers’] interest that we say ‘no’ sometimes." And to be fair, by last July we were seeing much stronger policy: the biggest U-turns – on f...
10 hours ago
...or-money; a different approach is needed, not least to react to the new policy agendas around transparency,...aking systems, partly because ministers preferred to win headlines with policy announcements than be held to...
3 days ago
...and it may be true for all policies, [is that] a better way of taking a policy forward is always to look at...nance, EMEA at Deutsche Bank2002 Joins HM Treasury as head of PFI Policy and Private Finance Unit 2004...
yesterday
Interview: Bob Kerslake and Jeremy Heywood
...ew approaches to implementing policy. The civil service is sheddin...We’ve moved from a phase of policy design into a phase of policy...ork: Heywood’s ambitions on policy design and implementation, he...t as budgetary, political and policy pressures grow. “I’m as p...
2 days ago
Frontline: A workforce development manager explains the impact of policy on working life
...ry responsibilities, youth services have been cut severely. Another big policy change has been the removal of the Every Child Matters (ECM) policy, which set out national targe...
24 days ago
...an delegate Dr Mikhail Pryadilnikov, head of the Department of Economic Policy Coordination and Development,...k already done to support [them]. I’ve often said that good strategic policy work will some day find the l...
44 days ago
...to warrant careful attention from policy makers: the ‘consumerisatio...d, “that people who are setting policy, who are helping to design pu...ctions between technology trends, policymakers should be aware of how...elop “informed strategy, better policymaking and, above all, optimis...
yesterday
Round table: Meeting the 25 per cent carbon reduction targets
...Woods head of support services and information policy at the Treasury Solicitor’s...ot working?” he asked. However, Nick Geddes, policy adviser on neighbourhood plan...ciate director, procurement, OfgemNick Geddes, policy adviser, neighbourhood planni...
24 days ago
Special report: How efficient is your department?
...ncreased their estates by 30 and 17 per cent respectively. A DECC spokesperson explained that expansion was needed to house new staff working on a policy area that has transfered to D...
85 days ago
Special report: SCS recruitment
...nment, are probably largely media policy specialists. When business se...st year and lost control of media policy, senior civil servants were t...in 2010, the arrival of a set of policy and communications profession...ition’s ambitions move from policy work to implementation, any s...
110 days ago
...influential membership of more than 19,000 senior managers, government policy advisors, diplomats, tax prof...ssociation, we promote and protect our members' interests. We influence policy on their behalf, and provide...
16 days ago
...ge the highest technical and professional standards in government because public money is more important than ever in the current environment. Our policy and technical initiatives pro...
124 days ago
Lean Sourcing Process (was Licence to Source Network)
...ernment Licence. To view this licence, visit http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/non-commercial-government-licence/ or write to the Information Policy Team, The National Archives,...
59 days ago
Home | Policy Guidance | Policy Resources | Policy by Subject | Policy Training In this group you can read...oad files and share information about policy in government. Join the group...e questions or share information with policy colleagues across government....
163 days ago
Recruitment Officer - Foreign & Commonwealth Office - February 2010 to October 2011 Executive Assistant to Zina Etheridge & William Hague (Executive Directors for CS Reform and Strategy & CS Workforce Reform) - ERG, Cabinet Office - October 2011 to February 2012 Assistant Private Secretary to N...
Areas of interest: policy, strategy, corporate reform
5 days ago
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163 days ago
Comment on "Brown takes on teenage Mums"
The Department for Children, Schools and Families has released some further details of the policy and, thankfully and perhaps unsurprisingly, the reality is much less hard-line than i...856 days ago
Comment on "To cut or not to cut"
...g and domestic lives would come to an abrupt halt. It is this that makes me (and many more senior figures I suspect judging from some of the policy u-turns) uneasy about initiat...850 days ago
