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12 days ago
Partners and Exhibitors - Post Office
With a presence in every community across the UK, the Post Office’s 11,500 branches are visited by more...than 20 million customers - a third of the population - each week.The Post Office presents the public with a fr...
239 days ago
Agenda for Public Service Modernisation
...longer be tolerated. The Cabinet Office Counter Fraud Taskforce on...As the secretariat to the Cabinet Office Counter Fraud Taskforce the N...ent achieve the most far reaching post-war welfare reforms, creating a...skills of volunteering. The Office for Civil Society will provid...
220 days ago
Upcoming Civil Service World Events
Upcoming Civil Service World Events Civil Service World and the Post Office are working together to host a w...heart of the channel shift agenda Where next for digital inclusion? Post Office network transformation Getti...
13 hours ago
Appointments and Moves: 25 Jan 2012
...e her previous role of Cabinet Office director of policy communic...ns. Before joining the Cabinet Office, Grey worked at the Audit C...of March, and will retain his post at the MoJ.Tim Kelsey’s r...director of the Serious Fraud Office. He will take up the post in April 2012 when the current...
9 days ago
An old-fashioned view of good government
...[as a Blair special adviser] in Number 10, my criticism of the Cabinet Office’s departmental capabi...mplex challenges in a shrinking world and is inhabited by a diverse and post-deferential population, it is i...
719 days ago
Brown is covering all the bases - but is anybody ready to listen?
...gent will be disqualified from holding such a post.” Rising to ne...venture capitalists during the recession. The Post Office will be freed to move back...ration to finance developing businesses; the Post Office will offer banking services;...
856 days ago
Kerslake vows to head civil service with ‘visible leadership’
...licy making, service delivery, and back office services.Speaking to CSWimm...f support services. The form these back office services take, he said, is le...eform Group chief Ian Watmore takes the post of permanent secretary at the Cabinet Office.Asked exactly how Gus’s rol...
79 days ago
Former top officials raise fears over cabinet secretary job split
...at he disagreed with the decision to split the post when Sir Gus O’Donnell reti...this year.“I do regret the splitting of the post, for a number of reasons,”...utler also expressed surprise that the Foreign Office has accepted an apparent broa...
92 days ago
...about preparing their own senior spokesmen for office, or about adjusting their p...y, civil servants played a more active role in post-election negotiations. Senior W...ne or other of the governing parties may be in office after the election, but not n...
78 days ago
...nent secretary at the Cabinet Office will be taken by Ian Watmore, currently chief operating officer of the Cabinet Office’s...for the changes, the Cabinet Office pointed to the increased work...iry that the functions of the post fit together well and that prev...
102 days ago
...tor of digital in the Cabinet Office’s Efficiency and Reform G...ment there isn’t “a great poster child” for digital transact...ful.” Once there is a great poster child, however, he seems conf...rvice and its suite of online office programmes – Google Docs ...
73 days ago
...charged with mutualising the Post Office, argues that past mutualisa...what the public thinks of the Post Office; and in particular, he’s...on’s plans is that the Post Office should win contracts to provi...nging perceptions of the Post Office will be important to the succ...
73 days ago
...m disparate groups” – such as South Africa post-apartheid or the various ethn...n a presentation by David Halpern, the Cabinet Office’s adviser on behavioural ec...Central Division of the Federal Chancellor’s Office, GermanyWayne Wouters, Clerk...
44 days ago
Frontline: patient administrator
...tly, the people who are managing services get pulled back and sit in an office somewhere rather than inter...ital will dictate a letter, which is backed up electronically, and then post it to a GP surgery. There’s a...
176 days ago
Round table: Challenges of mutualisation
...tion on the mutualisation of the Post Office, Liberal Democrat consumer af...consultancy services at the Home Office, agreed: “The attraction fo...rmation programme manager at the Office of the Public Guardian, said...d he understood that the Cabinet Office has already begun to consider...
99 days ago
Round table: Challenges of mutualisation
...tion on the mutualisation of the Post Office, Liberal Democrat consumer af...consultancy services at the Home Office, agreed: “The attraction fo...rmation programme manager at the Office of the Public Guardian, said...d he understood that the Cabinet Office has already begun to consider...
99 days ago
Special report: How efficient is your department?
...unlikely” that the Cabinet Office has reduced HR costs by 54 pe...s combined into fewer, bigger offices, pays significantly less per...age on behalf of HMRC such as post, print, couriers, vehicles, env...efinitions which, the Cabinet Office believes, will deliver cost s...
85 days ago
The coalition special advisers
....Before taking on her current post after the general election, Cun...appointed Cunningham to this post from the business lobby group t...as a Conservative Party press officer, and did a stint with Google...ionist – who still believes post-devolution that unionism is par...
176 days ago
Ed Davey, charged with mutualising the Post Office, argues that past mutualisations haven’t won the backing of employees. Suzannah Brecknell hears him discuss the challenges – and praise the power of ‘nudge’ techniques. Ed Davey is concerned about perceptions. As a business minister with...
Tags: employment relations, post office
73 days ago
Department for Transport: non-executive directors
Sam Laidlaw Old Etonian Sam Laidlaw qualified as a solicitor soon after graduating from Cambridge University, but a career in law was not for him. Instead he chose to follow in the footsteps of his father – Sir Christopher Laidlaw, former BP chairman – and venture into the oil and energy indu...
Tags: departmental briefings, post office
176 days ago
Comment on "Social Networking in Central Government"
...immersion' through using them regularly), your post highlights another danger:...e debate. As I hinted in my earlier post, I'm not a natural candidate...in my views, I happily took to using our Home Office blog. But (and it...831 days ago
Comment on "Social Networking in Central Government"
...ov? Yes, perhaps the original title of the post was misleading. It's more...st papers coming out of HM Treasury or Cabinet Office and see how other Departmen...t be right? Like I’ve said throughout my posts. I’m not advocating that we...773 days ago
