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Sir Gus

...ing more efficiently. And this is where our Capability Reviews have continued to make a differe...een the programme significantly improve the capability of the civil service, help...g makes it more important than ever for the reviews to focus on delivery, and nex...

783 days ago

Top-level pages

Analysis: Not ordering, but empowering

...contrast with 2008 is revealing. Then, four of our 20 permanent secretaries cited climate change as a key challenge, while five spoke about capability reviews. Seven wrote about the need t...

418 days ago

A Deloitte feature: spending review cross-government analysis

...act of the spending review on capability, the regional distribution of...temic weakness in the general capability of public bodies to develop b...lic sector of post-investment reviews to inform future decision-making...reforms necessary to achieve capability transformation, but more will...

432 days ago

Blog posts

Accepting danger and facing failure

...o hear Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude tell civil servants last week that, while in opposition, he stopped shadow ministers from using capability reviews as a stick with which to beat...

568 days ago

News

New departmental appraisals published

...8 departments are producing action plans based on the capability reviews conducted under the previous gov...She added that this is an extension of the previous capability review process, explaining that this set of reviews will be entirely internal in...

180 days ago

Gill Rider to leave civil service

Gill Rider,  head of the civil service capability group, has announced that she will leave the Cabinet...or leadership of the civil service. The development of the Top 200, capability reviews and talent management program...

180 days ago

Interviews

Interview: Sir Gus O'Donnell

...and enhancing the immediate and longer-term capability of the civil service with str...vil service reform agenda and build improved capability; enhancing governance and acc...ecretaries; Civil Service Awards; capability reviews; departmental boards; senior...

50 days ago

Features

Listening in on the leaders

...he says, the fact that many big decisions are taken during spending reviews means they “end up being made...ed learning: several delegates were keen to find out more about the capability reviews undertaken by the UK and New...

48 days ago

Profile: Dr Martin Read

...d objectives, and carry out the operational reviews whose introduction Read advocate...’ve got to give Gus marks for introducing capability reviews,” he says. “That was one...that we’ve moved too slowly, but there is capability now in most departments to...

180 days ago

Special_report

Special report: The hard road ahead

...for years, regularly stirred by reviews calling for greater centralisati...t, the policy is to use existing capability wherever possible. “We’re...the centre – that we have the capability to support departments in...main, there will be three-yearly reviews to decide whether they are st...

180 days ago

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Cut public sector front line, says Reform

The public sector frontline workforce should be cut by one million, a centre-right think-tank has saidThe public sector frontline workforce should be cut by one million and not protected, a centre-right think-tank has said.A report from Reform, published today, has criticised Conservative and Lab...

Tags: david cameron, gordon brown, philip hammond, liam byrne, civil service pay and conditions, capability reviews, professional skills, public sector pay and conditions, reform of public services

753 days ago

Cut public sector front line, says Reform

The public sector frontline workforce should be cut by one million, a centre-right think-tank has saidThe public sector frontline workforce should be cut by one million and not protected, a centre-right think-tank has said.A report from Reform, published today, has criticised Conservative and Lab...

Tags: david cameron, gordon brown, philip hammond, liam byrne, civil service pay and conditions, capability reviews, professional skills, public sector pay and conditions, reform of public services

753 days ago