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Analysis: Not ordering, but empowering
...he need to improve leadership, staff development and skills, and a further seven about organisational change – and they meant departmental reshuffles conducted, largely, to meet t...
Some good old-fashioned advice
...opinions, not those of the party leadership), some of his allegations ring true: too many initiatives in quick succession; too many ministerial reshuffles; too much restructuring of de...
Blog posts
...egates and speakers alike have been voicing their irritation with the frequent changes in machinery of government that have attended ministerial reshuffles in recent years. Changing min...
News
Officials need better Parliamentary training, say former ministers
...special advisers and expert outsiders, set out a number of factors which could make ministers more effective – including reducing the rate of reshuffles, and introducing performance...
Former ministers call for greater expertise among policymakers
...that ministers should have fixed-term appointments to prevent policymaking and delivery from being damaged by politically-motivated ministerial reshuffles. “The biggest change we nee...
Analysis_opinion
Making ministers more effective
...help ministers become more effective and to increase the number of effective ministers. Among the 14 recommendations are reducing the number of reshuffles of choice ( as opposed to tho...
Interviews
...stability is still a relief. “It’s been nice to have had quite a firm commitment from the prime minister that he wasn’t going for frequent reshuffles,” he says. “I think we al...
...more wary I’ve become of institutional change for its own sake,” he says. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Howe is also against regular ministerial reshuffles. He was spared too much of th...
Features
...ster for 12 years, weathering calls to resign (over a child abuse scandal which occurred during her tenure as Islington Council leader) and many reshuffles, before finally leaving for p...
...g government shared service providers as equivalent to private counterparts. Her agency’s activities, for example, are subject to the whims of reshuffles, generous employment terms an...
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Mark LundAd man Mark Lund became boss of the Central Office of Information in June, as high-profile campaigns such as Change4Life took off. He tells Matthew O’Toole how government can best communicate in the age of austerityThe exterior view of the Central Office of Information (COI) headquarte...
Tags: Government communications, media management, financial management and analysis, reshuffles
Reshuffle may see end of DIUSThe Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills could be abolished in the reshuffleThe Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS) could be abolished as part of the machinery of government changes.The ongoing government reshuffle may result in the...
Tags: civil service, department for innovation, universities and skills, reshuffles