Driving diversity by increasing senior role models

Navroza Ladha on why finding senior role models from ethnic minority backgrounds is so important for the next generation of civil servants.
A range of blogs illustrating the theme of the same name, one of the four supporting pillars of the vision of 'A Brilliant Civil Service'.
The strapline for this theme is: "A brilliant Civil Service - a great place to work. It will continue to be inclusive, flexible, modern and connected, sitting at the heart of a wider public service. In everything we do we will encourage openness, challenge, innovation and excellence."
The three other pillars of the vision are: Improved outcomes; Effective leaders; Skilled people.
Navroza Ladha on why finding senior role models from ethnic minority backgrounds is so important for the next generation of civil servants.
To coincide with a new campaign encouraging more people to take advantage of shared parental leave, Rupert McNeil introduces three examples of civil servants who did just that.
How will the country be marking the centenary of votes for women?
The Ministry of Justice has jumped into the top 20 of the Stonewall list of the 100 best employers for LGBT staff. How did they do it?
Civil Service Health and Wellbeing Champion Jonathan Jones supports Time to Talk Day.
Rupert McNeil looks at what's been achieved in the first 16 months of Civil Service HR's collaboration with HR professional body CIPD.
The Civil Service marked International Day of Persons with Disabilities in a variety of ways, as Philip Rutnam explains.
Diversity champions Jonathan Jones and Philip Rutnam outline what the Government response to the Improving Lives - Work, Health and Disability Green Paper means for the Civil Service.
Civil Service Fast Streamer Kavita Hansla wrote a poem about diversity, and decided the best way to bring it to life was to invite some colleagues along and film them reciting it.
Disability Champion Philip Rutnam rounds up recent developments in improving disability inclusion in the Civil Service.