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Jan 23, 2025 · On the cover of the winter 2025 issue of Civil Service World is Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government permanent secretary Sarah Healey. In her first CSW interview in the role, she shares her thoughts on changes ahead and her tips for keeping worries at bay.. Also in this issue, we give you the highlights of outgoing cabinet secretary Simon Case's last lecture in post and ...

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Jan 1, 2025 · PCS union president Fran Heathcote urges ministers to give the civil service the resources it needs and make good on their insourcing pledge to

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Feb 6, 2025 · Ministers have unveiled a new performance management model, which they say will help to make the civil service a “world leader”. The government today published an update to the performance management framework for the senior civil service and pledged to “identify and tackle poor performance where we find it” but also “recognise the good work of senior leaders across the civil service”.

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Jul 15, 2024 · As this goes out, new ministers are coming to terms with the challenges of how to get their priorities delivered. As a civil servant for over 30 years, finishing as a director in the Cabinet Office, it's been exciting to work with two former spads, Labour and Conservative, on a Policy Exchange report Getting a Grip on the System: Restoring Ministerial Authority over …

Aug 29, 2024 · Two decades is a long time in government. When we launched as Whitehall & Westminster World in 2004, Tony Blair’s New Labour drove the policy of the day. Our archives capture vignettes of the high-profile projects civil servants were working on in those early years – from ASBOs and the Euro to the long, tortuous development (and, later, scrapping) of ID cards.

Dec 14, 2023 · The civil service headcount has risen by 7,000 in three months amid plans from the government to bring numbers back to pre-pandemic levels. The number of full-time equivalent civil servants went up from 489,000 to 496,000 between June and September, according to the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics.