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I had a fantastic day at Civil Service Live in Bristol on Wednesday. If you are not aware of it, Civil Service Live is a learning event for Civil Servants and this year the sessions will be centred on four …
Be it Crossrail, the Olympics, or the Green Investment Bank, departments across government oversee some of the country’s largest projects from launch to completion – projects that are not only big in scale, but which have a far-reaching impact on economic growth …
Meeting colleagues across the country is one of the highlights of my role – hearing about your experiences through my blog is one thing, but nothing beats meeting colleagues outside of Whitehall and actually seeing this work for myself. My …
As part of my regular visits programme I spent last Friday afternoon at the offices of 3BM, an employee-owned mutual that delivers services such as financial management, IT and building development to schools allowing them to focus on education. I …
A couple of weeks ago I had the opportunity to visit our embassy in the Yemen. The visit was at the invitation of the FCO. Having been to the embassy in Sweden, this was a chance to meet British civil …
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 …