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Civil Service Awards Media Pack 2011
...are essential to this constant improvement and it is vital that this best practice is communicated across go...uo;s ability to showcase winning teams as lessons in and examples of best practice that can be applied across th...
168 days ago
Civil Service World Media Pack 2011
...unication within central government, it meets the need for a nation-wide newspaper for senior civil servants to disseminate policies and share best practice.
257 days ago
Home | Categories | Timeline | Judgi...ng, team building, leadership messaging and initiatives, changes to management practice and establishment of new repo...
181 days ago
...quality Impact Assessment received praise from the cross-government Heads of Digital Engagement Group as an example of best practice. Our customer insight revealed that to best meet the needs of the diverse gro...
181 days ago
Civil Service World Upcoming Events
...ing vulnerable and excluded users. Attendees will have the opportunity to discuss the challenges they face, explore common solutions and share best practice to ensure that users remain p...
4 hours ago
Upcoming Civil Service World Event
Civil Service World is working with the Post Office to offer a free-to-attend semin...sector discussions on these key issues and enable officials to learn from good practice in other parts of the UK &nda...
6 hours ago
I've just returned from NICS live in Belfast, having endured the Leadership panel d...oing this constantly, but in fact he dedicated one half day every week to this practice. That left him plenty o...
448 days ago
...g house for innovative ideas and best practice. Speaking after watching...ideas are already being put into practice in other parts of the civ...gathers in ideas, identifies the best and most innovative ways of deliv...rvice to identify and distribute best practice. The National School of Gover...
942 days ago
Maude: officials must develop skills to work better with suppliers
Civil servants must work more closely with suppliers to improve outcomes and suppor...aw,” he said – but in fact it is “plain common sense and good commercial practice.”Meanwhile, speaking to the...
67 days ago
ICO commissioner calls for compulsory audit powers over NHS, councils and private companies
The Information Commissioner’s Office should be able to conduct compulsory aud...king, joined-up service delivery – and that depends on sound data protection practice and public confidence that pe...
109 days ago
When cabinet secretary Gus O’Donn...Cameron as cementing good coalition practices. What neither may have fully...s a careful line, codifying existing practice while not seeking to extend i...res of government will mean that the practices it describes will evolve ove...
88 days ago
Helping the public help themselves
...a broken hip and has various needs… The very best person to decide ultimately w...y from hospital and happy, is Mrs Jones.” In practice, Letwin said this will no...nd publish it? I’m in the former camp.”The best place to publish information is o...
109 days ago
...ts, knows that most tensions are best resolved backstage; and, like...ies between departments, and are best treated with a mechanism like...utside and we got the benefit of best practice being developed elsewhere.”...I get the chance to put it into practice.”He’s exaggerating, of co...
33 days ago
The National Audit Office has almost untrammelled access to departments, providing...matter that I’m not as much concerned with.” Painting that big pictureIn practice, Morse’s desire to examine...
105 days ago
A plan of action for plans of action
...d project management. Looking broadly at the best approaches, and then learning...ve identified both some crucial elements of best practice, and some of the most dangero...lection and want to see their ideas put into practice by then. Project management m...
5 days ago
Frontline: A workforce development manager explains the impact of policy on working life
...going. It’s provided a great online presence with forums, research and resources for workers; it offered opportunities to network and share best practice; and drove through many workf...
27 days ago
Round table: Meeting the 25 per cent carbon reduction targets
...cal authorities and government buildings these clauses are not common practice.”Coles’ department ha...ere was a joined-up approach across government departments. Kaur said best practice in green IT is shared effecti...
27 days ago
Unlocking services and locking data
...data it holds, and the actual practices it adopts for doing that...is required to ensure that IA practices are brought up to date with...and technology, what’s the best way of going about it?’”Robin...reins very tight.” Sharing best practiceMcGrory said that as the...
133 days ago
...t every department is getting the best deal and to avoid inconsisten...ment, with the aim of getting the best value for government as a who...helping suppliers to share their best practice and ideas and knowledge a...roblems. Pedder suggests that the best way for civil servants to make th...
179 days ago
The coalition special advisers
...erSenior adviser Steve Hilton is probably the best known of the Number 10 advise...of welfare reform policies now being put into practice by IDS, and helped soften the...that he is now so energetically putting into practice. And while her boss has moved...
179 days ago
A group to assist the best practice use of SEWBOT , and for individual group members to raise queries issues and for other members to offer support
140 days ago
...ce for Departmenal Board Secretaries to share common information and best practice. The aim of the group is...d Secretaries' Network beween meetings, to facilitate the sharing of best practice, and to reduce the frequency...
179 days ago
March 29 March - Public Bodies 2011 Birth, Marriages & Deaths (Organised by Westminster Explained) **The Public Bodies (Reform) Bill, currently before Parliament, proposes fundamental changes to the landscape in which Arm’s Length Bodies (ALBs) operate and deliver services. Minis...
Tags: Events, best practice
356 days ago
Cabinet Office minister Tessa Jowell has put aside her campaigning work to answer six key questions for CSW. Innovation, reform and careful planning, she says, will be required to cut costs whilst protecting services Q. What are the key ways in which the civil service will have to de...
Tags: tessa jowell, government, politics and public administration, civil service, democracy and elections, public sector consultants, restructuring of civil service, best practice, professional skills, general elections, general election 2010, election candidates
627 days ago
Comment on "HRH Prince Charles was a surprise visitor today at Civil Service Live!"
...- good for her!) helping 14yr olds at local schools with job interview practice and other preparations fo...nd oft quoted short poem) was an essential part of bringing forward the best new ideas, so I am glad that as a...862 days ago
Comment on "Brown takes on teenage Mums"
YWCA welcomes the Prime Minister’s recognition that teenage mothers need support. This is something we, and other organisations, have been providing in practice for many years and have been...859 days ago
