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From Civil Service Live 2011 session Driving Real Change on Equality- a Fresh Approach. Delivered on Thursday 7 July at 11.30 by Ali Humberstone.
...ntroversial? Communications in government isn't about spin it is about making policies clear, informing the...portant issues. Increasingly government communicators work closely with policy and delivery teams to ensure...
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Presentations and Videos from Civil Service Live 2011
...tation 1 Tue 12:30 Making better informed decisions wit...Internet as a research database: Policy, consultation and communicati...Mobility Wed 11:00 Making Payment-by-Results Work- Pres...tation 1 Wed 13:50 Making Policy Better - What should the CS d...
Partners and Exhibitors - Objective
Objective Policy Lifecycle Management empowers the public sector...solutions. It creates a centralised approach to policy development, unlocking cost s...12 months, through the adoption of standardised policy making processes across the organisa...
Top-level pages
...February with the creation of the Policy and Implementation Unit &ndas...eputy prime minister on strategy, policy and implementation. We have c...tively and energetically, and are making a real difference on the grou...ch to developing and implementing policy, which means moving away from...
...staff moved to new jobs in different policy areas, bringing new ways of working. We are making good progress towards being n...flexible and innovative organisation making the best of the great people...rowth and jobs for this country. Our policy agenda - from investing in hi...
Blog posts
Department's lobbying each other? It's a tiny fraction of the real problem
...sinesses. If anything “distorts decision-making in favour of the interests an...Institute for Economic Affairs, the Centre for Policy Studies and the Adam Smith In...citizens to make up their own minds about how policy is made....
An old-fashioned view of good government
...a or institutional prejudice. In making this judgement, ministers wer...ands we now face – both in making policy and in maintaining legitimacy...bout what it sees as failings in policy analysis and evaluation, and...e of good and effective decision-making, and to be willing to explore...
Wire posts
News
Sir Gus defends civil service against criticisms over ‘pace’
...minister. And there are good reasons why the growth fund can’t [begin making payments] straight away. We n...message they’re wanting to get across is: ‘Look, we’ve got a big policy reform agenda. We’ve really...
Kerslake vows to head civil service with ‘visible leadership’
...” issues, and sketched out plans to reform policy making, service delivery, and back o...eas for reform. “It’s important that the policy core is more unified, more fl...s the civil service head’s, Kerslake said, making it clear that he’ll be taki...
Analysis_opinion
... sometimes." And to be fair, by last July we were seeing much stronger policy: the biggest U-turns – on f...a good scrap. It is often difficult, in the middle of a tense decision-making process, to raise objections...
...ed, not least to react to the new policy agendas around transparency,...agement, information and decision-making systems, partly because minis...s preferred to win headlines with policy announcements than be held to...l-driven behaviour; push decision-making down the chain; incentivise i...
Interviews
Interview: Bob Kerslake and Jeremy Heywood
...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...ther Kerslake and Heywood are making progress in changing the way...
...tions chief – Siobhan Benita is making the leap into politics. Matt...ere leading the civil service and making all the key decisions – and...nteers, she explains, and will be making good use of social media and...ort2006 After 10 years as a policy adviser on transport and envi...
Features
...yadilnikov, head of the Department of Economic Policy Coordination and Development,...[them]. I’ve often said that good strategic policy work will some day find the l...er all, a forum for discussion, not a decision-making body – cabinet secretary Si...
...ver five centuries of foreign policy-making, were sold in 2008. All that...far in recent years away from policy-making expertise and towards cumbers...rking on three broad strands: policy, people and network. On the p...One of the issues in foreign policy is that it’s quite difficul...
Round_tables
...that people who are setting policy, who are helping to design pu...ns between technology trends, policymakers should be aware of how...“informed strategy, better policymaking and, above all, optimised ope...Lay noted that slow decision-making and procurement creates anoth...
Round table: Meeting the 25 per cent carbon reduction targets
...port services and information policy at the Treasury Solicitor’s...asked. However, Nick Geddes, policy adviser on neighbourhood plan...e progress that government is making on sustainable procurement: ...rocurement, OfgemNick Geddes, policy adviser, neighbourhood planni...
Special_report
Special report: How efficient is your department?
...r auditors will scrutinise.Before making these comparisons, however, a...d to house new staff working on a policy area that has transfered to D...not used for board-level decision making” – indicating scepticism...e starting point of good decision-making – and therefore, in turn, t...
Special report: SCS recruitment
...ear and lost control of media policy, senior civil servants were t...2010, the arrival of a set of policy and communications profession...ldquo;capacity to link policy-making and strategy to operational d...n’s ambitions move from policy work to implementation, any s...
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Groups
...for senior individual or collective leadership (e.g. a departmental Board) that has ensured equality thinking is done as a matter of course in policy making and service delivery. Mela...
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Reducing onerous regulations and legislation – the dreaded ‘bureaucracy’ which hampers enterprise – is a key coalition priority, and in the opening plenary at Civil Service Live cabinet secretary Gus O’Donnell stressed the importance of removing unhelpful or downright “bonkers...
Tags: health, policy making
Opinion: Deregulate to create growth
When the government came to power, it promised to reduce the burden of regulation, but members of the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) have said that so far there’s been a limited decline in the red tape that small firms must deal with.Our members tell us that they’ve been sent form...
Tags: policy making
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