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...b will become the Head of the Civil ServiceWhat are you most proud of achieving...eing appointed as head of the civil service has got to be the biggest e...becoming smaller through the restructuring process to becoming str...another busy year!How is the civil service likely to change during 2012?...
55 days ago
...ng reoffending, and in shared services. We have a network of 1500 ‘...most efficient department by Civil Service World. Like all departments...have worked to implement it, restructuring and reducing the senior civil service (SCS) across the department a...
55 days ago
Former ministers call for greater expertise among policymakers
...blic Accounts Committee, told Civil Service World. She added: “It may be good for civil servants’ personal developm...ld be more commonplace” for civil servants to stay in one departm...cy Better, which called for a restructuring of the relationship bet...
180 days ago
Special report: expert opinions
...through Whitehall and public services is on a scale and speed not seen s...The critical question for the civil service after the spending review i...rticular, to decentralise the civil service and improve its skills and...formation. The leaders of the civil service need to quickly produce a cre...
180 days ago
...estions about the role of the civil service chief. The public administ...ramme which sets out what the civil service is for and how it must change...of the Head of the Home Civil Service. Is it still appropriate, or...ntre and the Head of the Home Civil Service play in supporting the...
125 days ago
Interview: Bob Kerslake and Jeremy Heywood
...net secretary and head of the civil service, Jeremy Heywood and Bob Ker...r job as leaders of the civil service is to make sure that the civil service is supporting ministers...e going to deliver it. So the civil service’s job is to help ministers...
7 days ago
...ith the Identity and Passport Service, to be questioned about their backg...ovides a ‘check and send’ service for passport applications. Ra...as also undergone significant restructuring. The Newport office wil...ervice or IPS. She joined the civil service after working as a mana...
106 days ago
Frontline: A library assistant on the effects of government policy on a public library
...h ways of delivering a better service and saving money. Some of the recom...the detriment of the library service. Libraries were incorporated with...a very positive impact. Staff restructuring has removed layers of m...ee all news and features from Civil Service World
112 days ago
Diversity on a shrinking platform
...e diversity agenda within the civil service.As the figures below show, the prop...minority staff in the senior civil service (SCS) has risen steadily in...ot the time, however, for the civil service to rest on its laurels. Rea...t secretary and now the first civil service commissioner and commissioner...
180 days ago
.... The forthcoming open public services white paper (see news, p2) is also...nda. In the meantime, though, civil service managers are struggling to...the panel were concerned that civil servants will be reluctant to c...obs and in commissioning more services from the voluntary sector, s...
180 days ago
Ministry of Justice: non-executive driectors
...e successor to British Steel. Credited with restructuring and reviving the group, Leng...our non-executives, Sue Street is a career civil servant: she joined the Home...help hasten the government’s work. “The civil service takes a lot of time and care...
180 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...
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628 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
628 days ago
Comment on "Meeting the new diversity targets"
...really have a major problem - looking at the Civil Service overall females are widely...ar group or not. To summarise - I feel that restructuring/resizing will be used a...less time on Political Correctness then the service would begin to be worth its n...274 days ago
