Suzannah Brecknell

2 weeks ago | civilserviceworld.com | Beckie Smith |Tevye Markson |Suzannah Brecknell

The Cabinet Office has appointed a director from the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs as director general of civil service reform and efficiency. Janet Hughes will move to the Cabinet Office from her current post as director of Defra's Future Farming and Countryside Programme in June. She succeeds Elizabeth Perelman, who left government in March to lead former prime minister Rishi Sunak’s office.

2 weeks ago | civilserviceworld.com | Tevye Markson |Suzannah Brecknell

PCS will now seek an £18-per-hour minimum wage for civil servants, up from the £15 per hour it has previously demanded. The union’s annual conference delegates today backed a motion setting out a new national campaign, which includes the new policy on minimum wage and other demands such as fully consolidated pay rises of at least 10% and a shorter working week without loss of pay.

2 weeks ago | publictechnology.net | Tevye Markson |Suzannah Brecknell

Dave Penman, the general secretary of the FDA union, has lamented the government’s lack of pace and clear objectives to drive reform since it came to power last July. Delivering a speech at the union’s annual conference this morning, Penman, whose union represents mid-to-senior level officials, said civil servants are “hungry for reform” and urged the government to “get on with it”.

2 weeks ago | civilserviceworld.com | Tevye Markson |Suzannah Brecknell

Former cabinet secretaries, politicians and economists have shared their thoughts on how to reform the state in a new essay collection issued to mark the rebrand of one of the UK’s best-known public service reform think tanks. Reform has today changed its name to Re:State in a move it says will “end the confusion” created when Nigel Farage rebranded the Brexit Party as Reform UK.

3 weeks ago | civilserviceworld.com | Tevye Markson |Suzannah Brecknell

“It’s about prioritisation – doing the right thing, and then the next.” The words of Kate Caulkin, director of People and Operational Management Insights at the National Audit Office, captured the pragmatic tone of a recent Civil Service World webinar, hosted in partnership with Deloitte in anticipation of the next Spending Review.