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An Innovative Civil Service

Don’t Stagnate - Evaluate to Innovate!

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Evaluation is a powerful tool to help you investigate the merit and value of Civil Service policy, flag up any flaws, improve its quality and deliver better impact for citizens. Creating an ambitious, innovative and skilled Civil Service that can …

Putting disability at the heart of everything we do

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The National Disability Strategy aims to improve disabled people’s everyday lives. Learn more about the Civil Service’s commitment to support disabled civil servants to thrive at work. Today the Government has published the National Disability Strategy, which aims to tackle …

From Fossil Fuels to Clean and Green

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The story so far! How £1bn government funding is transforming public buildings on the way to the UK’s goal of net zero ready.  Across the UK work is underway to improve hundreds of buildings at the heart of our communities, …

My Life, My Career

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TV meteorologist and Met Office civil servant Clare Nasir takes a look back over her extraordinary 28-year career. “I would do this job for nothing,” – I recently admitted to my colleague Adrian. We were having one of those inspired …

Inside Policy: Laptops for learning in lockdown  

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Graham Archer, Director for Qualifications, Curriculum and Extra-Curricular, Department for Education, speaks about the challenge of delivering more than 1.3 million laptops and tablets to UK pupils in lockdown. It has been a trademark feature of working in this pandemic …