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  • 5 days ago | civilserviceworld.com | Beckie Smith |Dave Penman

    The Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee has launched a new inquiry into propriety and ethics in government. The committee will use the inquiry to examine the progress made so far on the government’s manifesto commitments to raise standards of ethics and integrity in government and to restore trust between the public and politics. These include setting up an ethics and integrity commission with an independent chair “to ensure probity in government”.

  • 2 months ago | civilserviceworld.com | Dave Penman |Tevye Markson

    The government’s announcement in October that it was maintaining the 60% office-attendance mandate was as disappointing as it was evidence free. There was no consultation with unions, which is a pity, as we were in the middle of analysing our biggest-ever survey of members – over 7,000 – on the issue of hybrid working. The response rate itself should tell you something about the concerns civil servants have over the approach of successive governments.

  • 2 months ago | civilserviceworld.com | Dave Penman |Tevye Markson

    The government’s announcement in October that it was maintaining the 60% office-attendance mandate was as disappointing as it was evidence free. There was no consultation with unions, which is a pity, as we were in the middle of analysing our biggest-ever survey of members – over 7,000 – on the issue of hybrid working. The response rate itself should tell you something about the concerns civil servants have over the approach of successive governments.

  • Mar 4, 2025 | civilserviceworld.com | Dave Penman |Jim Dunton

    No civil servant who has endured the last decade can come away from that experience without being a little bit scarred. They’ve witnessed governments who have played fast and loose with our constitution (proroguing parliament), the rule of law (in a limited and specific way) as well as the relentless attacks on the civil service, its values and any number of individual civil servants.

  • Jan 17, 2025 | civilserviceworld.com | Dave Penman |Jess Bowie |Jim Dunton

    A New Year heralds a new cabinet secretary and head of the civil service. Welcome, Chris, all is fine. It says a lot about the past few years that the most experienced permanent secretary didn’t appear on many people’s lists for top pick as Simon Case’s replacement. A job that used to be defined as being in the shadows has in recent times been a very public one, through necessity rather than choice, I would suggest. Events have thrust the role and its occupants into the limelight.

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