Former chancellor speaks about risk-aversion, diary secretaries and the departments officials 'really wanted to work in' ...

At a session this week, the perm sec faced repeated questioning over the development of the plans – and their impact. Robbins ...

Every public service relies on a secure and resilient system, but making ‘Secure by Design’ a reality can feel out of reach.

One of the authorities that is set to disappear is Woking Borough Council, which in 2023 issued a Section 114 declaration ...

Acting national statistician Emma Rourke is to leave post to take up a new job, the UK Statistics Authority has announced.

Delivery guru is one of 34 nominees for life peerages, including former Labour spads Matthew Doyle and Katie Martin ...

The Department for Education’s school attendance team won the Prime Minister’s Award for Exceptional Public Service at last night’s 20th anniversary special Civil Service Awards. The team, whose work ...

Hayhoe calls for creation of scrutiny panel to address the issue that lessons and recommendations are often not learnt and implemented ...

Today’s NAO report includes an analysis of a sample of 5,000 people who made an initial asylum claim in January 2023. It ...

From HMRC's Making Tax Digital to DWP's Universal Credit – we have not been digitising the state, we have been digitising complexity ...

In the week of the 2025 Civil Service Awards ceremony, we invite past winners to look back at the work which helped them ...

In a series of articles to mark the Civil Service Awards 20th Anniversary, we meet a selection of winners from across the ...