1+ day, 21+ hour ago  (259+ words) Dame Antonia Romeo, the cabinet secretary and head of the civil service, has published her objectives for the coming year, the first such publication in more than a decade. The newly-published document sets out Romeo's responsibilities and objectives, and a…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1562+ words) Arriving as the new Office for National Statistics permanent secretary in August, Darren Tierney says two things struck him. The first was the sheer amount of data and statistics the organisation publishes: "I think it's [around] 750 different outputs that we…...

20+ hour, 3+ min ago  (719+ words) Civil servants in the Office for National Statistics have voted to bring an end to a two-year dispute over office attendance rules after agreeing a move'away from individual targets. Under the new agreement, individual 40% attendance targets will be scrapped, with…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago  (941+ words) What drew you to this role? A strong sense of mission and purpose is really important to me in any role. And I can't think of many senses of purpose which are more important than keeping our country, our citizens…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (368+ words) Department for Work and Pensions staff have saved 19 minutes per day on average in a trial where they used Microsoft 365 Copilot to help with routine tasks. A six-month trial of the paid version of the generative AI tool took place…...

1+ week, 1+ hour ago  (411+ words) The Government Major Projects Portfolio got a reboot this week, with its size vastly reduced after new rules were set for which projects should be included. From 1 April, projects must meet the following criteria to be in the GMPP: support…...

6+ day, 23+ hour ago  (441+ words) Members of the PCS union have voted overwhelmingly to accept a three-year pay package that outstrips civil service-wide pay remit guidance. In a ballot last month, 93. 7% of those who voted backed the deal, which will see Home Office officials receive…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (1215+ words) But the recruiter replied, explaining they needed help with some "pretty intensive Brexit stuff, which meant they needed to "up the headcount quickly. The hiring director wanted to speak to him." "Someone described me as a jumped-up little prick'Nic Crowe…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (13+ words) Watch: How do you solve a problem like youth unemployment? Civil Service World...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (552+ words) The government has named tech entrepreneur Henry de Zoete " once a key ally of leading figures in the previous Conservative administration " in the civil service role of AI and investment adviser. Cummings was chief adviser to prime minister Boris Johnson…...