Civil Service Live: Bristol - pictures and round-up
The first of this year's Civil Service Live learning events kicked-off in Bristol on Wednesday (18 June). We had a full house of civil servants, senior leaders, volunteers, stands, the...
Our Civil Service
Weekend links: savings, capability refresh and finding a clean beach
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRMjZgPF2d0...Conflict from Emma Hopkins, Head of Ending Sexual Violence in Conflict at the Foreign Office. Our most popular tweets this week were: a neat intro to open internet tools for...
Global Summit to End Sexual Violence
...of the film made by Jolie ‘In the Land of Blood and Honey,’ has been credited by the Foreign Secretary as the inspiration for the launch of the Preventing Sexual...
Weekend links: Civil Service Awards, Volunteering Week, tackling modern slavery and more
...opened today for this year's Civil Service Awards. DWP and the CPS have made the early running with nominations, but you've got until 25 July to get yours in. If...
How to write the perfect Civil Service Award nomination
The Prime Minister presenting the Growth Award to the Britain is GREAT campaign team The Civil Service Awards celebrate and promote excellence across government. They are an opportunity to reward...
Why I became a Dementia Friend
HM Treasury's Daniel Poxon became a dementia friend for both profession and personal reasons, but the scheme has become a useful tool in his day-to-day role organising volunteering activities in the department.
Civil Service Live: 48 sleeps to go!
...it can count towards one of your five learning days a year. Quite right too. CS Live shouldn’t be about a day out of the office for the sake of...
A tale of two women – how two part-timers became a job-split
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Renée Smith Gorringe, Posted on:
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Diversity and inclusion, Our Civil Service
When the Government Office network was abolished, and we both applied for the same position in the newly created Local Intelligence Team in the office of Civil Society (Cabinet Office), we were offered the post on a job-share basis. We are part of a team of 9, with 1 colleague based in each of the …
The ambassadorial job share
My husband and I have been job-sharing the role of Ambassador in Armenia for the past two years. We decided to use the format pioneered by the first couple to job-share the head of post role – four months on/off – and have found this has worked very well, for us, for the Embassy team …
The benefits are obvious…
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Sarah Healey, DCMS Permanent Secretary and CS Disability Champion, Posted on:
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Diversity and inclusion, Leading and managing change, Our Civil Service
I’m a big fan of job shares – so am delighted this network has been established. I was recently involved with some work on getting more women into senior positions in the civil service. One of the major issues we identified was managers not understanding the benefits of having jobsharers working for them – and …