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"Take advice now, to safeguard future savings"
Contract renegotiations provide a good opportunity for government departments to make short-term cost savings. But it’s important to ensure such contracts don&rsq...
366 days ago
...this decision could have been perceived as negative, Tracy secured a range of measures to improve, rather than reduce, staff access to support and advice. Through careful negotiation,...
178 days ago
...policies. As a result of the review, we are in the process of establishing a new Reasonable Adjustment Support Team dedicated to providing expert advice on appropriate adjustments an...
178 days ago
Managing projects successfully: expert advice and case studies
...practical, case-study filled article on how to manage a major project sucessfully. Click here to read the full article. What do you think of the advice in the article? Do you have o...
2 days ago
...t is responsible for public prosecutions and is headed by the Director of Public Prosecutions for Northern Ireland. The Public Prosecution Service advice the police service on possibl...
4 days ago
...er women journalists (with a few notable exceptions) were the least friendly when I was starting out. It was often the male colleagues who offered advice, gave me opportunities or off...
141 days ago
Too big a gamble to bet the house on
...e easing and a fiscal stimulus. At the daily Number 10 press briefing, journalists were told that “ministers have not asked for any advice on alternative approaches bec...
415 days ago
Departing Benita urges focus on diversity and robust advice
...il service will be able to meet the huge challenges facing Britain, she argued, “because the more representative you are in terms of your policy advice, the better chance you have o...
10 hours ago
New chief tightens corporate leadership with stronger board
...“provide strategic leadership for the civil service, reaching a collective view on key issues affecting the civil service, providing collective advice to ministers, and where appro...
2 days ago
...nd head of the civil service Sir Bob Kerslake also talk of the need to "help ministers to think about" delivery and for officials to offer "robust advice": their message, though diplo...
10 hours ago
...public service reform are likely to fail”. The PASC report argued that the civil service has three traditional core capabilities: giving policy advice; managing public services; an...
63 days ago
Interview: Bob Kerslake and Jeremy Heywood
...erslake argues that past problems haven’t been caused by civil servants trying to move too fast; the question is, he says, “whether the robust advice has been given, the issues an...
2 days ago
...’t always see eye to eye”, so “really we have to have that policy advice in-house”. Devolved matter...odies into departments – a process the Welsh undertook years ago. Her advice is to plan properly to avoid...
29 days ago
Frontline: A workforce development manager explains the impact of policy on working life
....The government has also reduced the statutory responsibility for councils to provide careers guidance for young people: they only have to provide advice for looked-after children or...
24 days ago
...y public sector enterprises, leading to mounting frustration and concerns that the GPU is missing a trick. Although the GPU has had private sector advice on its pilots, the consolidat...
74 days ago
...gement at DWP, for example, spoke about new online services and even ‘apps’ for smart phones which enable jobseekers to access information and advice without needing to visit a br...
yesterday
Round table: Challenges of mutualisation
...level – because most of the good stuff is aimed at director level; developing a sustainable product or service; and access to business help and advice at an affordable price.”Jam...
99 days ago
The coalition special advisers
...elman.Hague’s chief of staff, Dr Arminka Helic, has provided him with advice since 2005. Helic, a Bosnian-...Bernard Jenkin and Nicholas Soames. At the FCO she provides specialist advice on Afghanistan, Pakistan, the...
176 days ago
Department for Education: non-executive directors
...tanding of the charitable sector through his work for two not-for-profit organisations. He is a trustee of the New Schools Network, which provides advice and support to organisations...
176 days ago
...e of accountancy and finance in the public sector We provide impartial advice, analysis and guidance to gov...oss all industry sectors around the world, and are relied on to provide advice and leadership to the organis...
124 days ago
...h set up for this group, the forum is open to anybody interested in career development. This is a place for us to swap stories and ideas, ask for advice, share top tips and generally...
176 days ago
...a producer of evaluation or a user. We aim to create a forum where we can share experiences, and a network through which people can seek help and advice. it has been set up by the me...
176 days ago
The Civil Service Benevolent Fund Has Health On Your Mind
To mark the beginning of Fund Week, and to tie in with World Mental Health Day (10 October), the Civil Service Benevolent Fund is proud to launch Health on your Mind, a major new initiative to support emotional wellbeing in the workplace. The initiative has been jointly announced by Fund C...
Tags: civil service benevolent fund, help, advice, mental health, support, workplace
117 days ago
The Fund Has Health On Your Mind
To mark the beginning of Fund Week, and to tie in with World Mental Health Day (10 October), the Civil Service Benevolent Fund is proud to launch Health on your Mind, a major new initiative to support emotional wellbeing in the workplace. The initiative has been jointly announced by Fund C...
Tags: civil service benevolent fund, help, advice, mental health, support, workplace
117 days ago
Comment on "To cut or not to cut"
...e of the need for the state to attack the “six giants of Want, Disease, Ignorance, Squalor, Idleness and Moral decadence.” I like the advice I first heard over 20 years a...853 days ago
Comment on "A Map for the Future?"
...e but also of knowing what it is actually like to deliver the sewrvice and do it for real. Only in that respect can we provide fully rounded advice that is grounded in listening...707 days ago
