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Francis Maude: shadow Cabinet Office minister
...,” he told Personnel Today in June, arguing that wider experience could be imported into the upper ranks by encouraging top officials to take secondments with “a sense that you won...
...is keen for others to do the same, and believes there should be more secondments. “They’re happening,” h...really want this to happen, try and get out as much as you can’.”Secondments, he says, could fill some of...
Blog posts
HRH Prince Charles' speech at Civil Service Live
...ffice, Prince Charles said that having volunteers from government departments makes a fantastic difference [to charities], and volunteering and secondments work both ways: often, civil...
News
Prince of Wales champions voluntary sector secondments
The secondees, he said, “really have made a profound difference and been very important to the charities involved.”The prince, pictured above with guests at the recep...
DFID sets up new private sector department
...llow. "I want DFID to learn from business. I want to explore how we might enrich DFID’s own talent pool with a series of short-term secondments from the private sector in or...
Interviews
...enefits of exchangeMore generally, Ricketts argues in favour of more secondments and staff movements between t...ts. As FCO permanent secretary, he says, “I was keen to facilitate secondments in and out, so that FCO peopl...
...have been more effective in engaging with suppliers had he spent time working for a private company: there should be a comprehensive system of secondments between government and its su...
Features
...uiting people who are already in the charity sector or have experience of the charity sector”. “The route to get experience is through secondments or to do some volunteering,...
Feature: Building the Big Society
...more time working with social enterprises to understand the on-the-ground realities for community groups.There are plenty of opportunities for secondments, he says, but the nature of c...
Round_tables
Roundtable: Outwards and upwards
...standard part of the civil service career path – possibly through secondments. “A lot of our talented peo...head of employer brand at HM Revenue & Customs. “Here, through secondments, is a way we can provide them...