Civil Service Reform
Winter weather has arrived, the shops are packed to the rafters and brightly-coloured knitwear is back in fashion. It can only mean one thing: Christmas is well and truly here. But before everyone heads off for a few days of …
Today the House of Commons Liaison Committee published its first report of session 2013/14. The concerns raised in the report are, by and large, not new – most address historical weaknesses which have already been raised by ministers and directly …
Inspiring progress It is hard to believe that a year has passed since we launched our Digital Strategy, setting out our ambition to redesign our digital services and make them more easily accessible than ever before. Through the Civil Service …
Back in October I asked every civil servant to take part in the annual Civil Service People Survey. An impressive 270,793 of you did, and I’d like to extend a big thank you to all of you who took the …
Few days pass by in this job where I don’t find new reasons to feel proud of the Civil Service – whether visiting colleagues around the country to hear about the work they are taking forward, or meeting with teams …
My most recent blog post – Civil Service of the Future – recently went out to every civil servant via the new all-staff e-mail. I was really pleased with the response that it received. I read all of your comments …
With eight weeks still to go until Christmas it is perhaps a little bit too early to fully reflect on the ‘year that was’. However I have spent some time this week thinking about both our achievements to date and …
In my role as Head of the Civil Service I get to see the value of reserve forces from both perspectives. With a foot in both camps, reservists are the bridge between military and the rest of the society, enabling …
For many university-leavers across the country, autumn represents the transition from student life to the world of work. After three or four years at university, graduate schemes begin in earnest, as young degree-holders set their minds to the excitement that …
For all of us here in the Civil Service, October is an important month. Mid-year reviews are fast approaching, where we will all have the opportunity to map out ourdevelopment plans for the months to come and make sure that we …